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Table 1. Azraq water budget 2009, WAJ.
Al–Elawat
0
0
0 0
20
1375
69
Analysis of the agricultural Um- situation in Azraq Basin German-Jordanian Programme “Management of Water Resources”
0 0
0 0
16 770
Swaweneh
48
Total
103
7566 73
191
24686 129
512
51847
101
Type of Well
Total
number
Consump-
of wells tion (MCM)
Legal agricultural well
Illegal agriculture well
Private governmental well
Governmental well for drinking water
Wells for herds in remote areas
Total
Total
304
561
13
20
11
909
909
6.3
13.2
0.7
16.9
?
37.1
37.1
Non
working
Wells
59
325
3
4
5
391
391
Working
Wells
245
236
10
16
11
518
518
Table 2. Wells in North Badia (WAJ, 2009): only 51 wells abstract
water from Azraq aquifer.
Type
Type
of
of
Well
Well
Legal
Legal
agricultural
agricultural
well
well
Illegal
Illegal
agriculture
agriculture
well
well
Private governmental well
Private governmental well
Private agricultural wells with permits
Private agricultural wells with permits
Governmental well for drinking water
Governmental well for drinking water
Wells for factories, universities,
productive
Wells for factories,
wells
universities,
productive wells
Wells for construction, livestock
or Wells for for other construction, uses livestock
or for other uses
Total
Total
Total
Total number
number
of
of
wells
wells
345
345
6
11
11
5
1
26
26
13
13
407
407
Non
Non
Working
Working
Wells
Wells
56
56
3
-
-
-
-
-
59
59
Working
Working
Wells
Wells
289
289
3
11
11
5
1
26
26
13
13
348
348
3.2. Consolidation of Water
Management Policies
From 1962 until 1992, licenses were
given by the government for drilled
wells in Mafraq and Jiza regions.
Two thirds of the licenses specified
the maximum amount of water for
abstraction (allowable abstracted
amount); usually 50000 and 70000
m 3 /y (and sometimes 100000 m 3 /y
after 1990). But faced with overall
scarcity of water, the drawdown
of aquifers and the decline of
water quality, several measures
were taken by the Government to
decrease groundwater abstraction.
In 1992, the drilling of wells was
frozen whereby no licenses were
given to new wells.
In 1998, the Groundwater Management
Policy was promulgated.
In 2002, the Ministry of Water
and Irrigation (MWI) of Jordan
issued Underground Water Control
bylaw No. (85) to control private