Water, Energy and Environment Center (WEE-Center) at the University of Jordan and in close cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) will support achieving the third objective of the WATERUN project, which is oriented to develop a planning tool for stormwater management mainly using decentralized approaches. The WEE-Center is currently hosting the office of inter-ministerial committee formed by the Cabinet in Jordan (NICE) to provide assitance in the development of integrated water management approaches with a focus on decentralized options.
Text BoxText BoxThe NICE committee and NICE office will support the UFZ in the development of modeling tools at block-level for reducing Urban Water Runoff through data provision and facilitation of model testing in the case study of Amman. In addition to this role, WEE-Center will support WP3 by providing a full MSc scholarship to develop a simplified hydrological modeling tool that shall examine the economic value of rooftop water harvesting and reuse within apartments and buildings in Amman particularly for toilet flushing. Accordingly, both the potential of reducing pollution load and the economy of scale will be tested. The scholarship will be provided through Dutch funded project (3S-WATER) coordinated by the IHE-Delft and launched March, 2023.
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Figure 1: Example rooftop water harvesting systems piloted in Amman. This example is from the WEE-Center and
implemented in cooperation with Greater Amman Municipality and UN-Habitat with the support of JICA
Our scientists, Khaldoun Shatanawi, and Maha Halalsheh, together with NICE committee are responsible for supporting the UFZ through the exercise of modelling tool development. They will also supervise the MSc student work targeting the development of a simplified hydrological model to define the most economic scale of decentralization considering both size and quality. In both cases, obtained results will be transferred through NICE to Greater Amman Municipality and Jordan Institution for Standarization and Metrology with clear recommendations regarding the required modifications on building codes and water runoff reuse standards.
Authors: Maha Halalsheh and Khaldoun Shatanawi (21.4.2023)