{"id":171689,"date":"2019-12-27T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaj24.com\/?p=171689"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T21:00:13","slug":"authorities-uncover-water-theft-from-disi-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/?p=171689","title":{"rendered":"Authorities uncover water theft from Disi pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Whaj 24 &#8211; AMMAN \u2014 Authorities have uncovered illegal water diversion into tankers from the Disi Water Conveyance Project&#8217;s supply pipeline, according to a statement from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The violation was reported in the Qatraneh area, the statement said, adding that this form of theft puts the pumping of water to Abu Alanda at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The alleged violation at the Disi pipline, one of the Kingdom\u2019s strategic water resources that meets some 55 per cent of Amman, Zarqa and Madaba&#8217;s water needs, endangers the Kingdom&#8217;s already scarce water resources, the statement said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement added that ministry cadres are working round-the-clock to complete maintenance to avoid a halt in pumping resulting from repeated violations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">During the first six months of this year, the ministry recorded 61 violations and acts of sabotage at the Disi project\u2019s facilities, despite state-assigned patrols to protect them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The project was launched in 2013 and supplies water to Amman via a pipeline that passes through several stations in Maan, Tafileh, Karak, Madaba before reaching Amman and continuing north via the national carrier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Under the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ) Law, those who abuse water carriers and mains, wastewater, pumping, purification or desalination stations, pollute water resources, pipes or stations used for drinking water, or are involved in digging wells without a licence face jail terms of up to five years and fines of up to JD7,000.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Violators of WAJ water and wastewater projects can also be jailed for up to three years and fined up to JD5,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Times *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whaj 24 &#8211; AMMAN \u2014 Authorities have uncovered illegal water diversion into tankers from the Disi Water Conveyance Project&#8217;s supply pipeline, according to a statement from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Tuesday.\u00a0 The violation was reported in the Qatraneh area, the statement said, adding that this form of theft puts the pumping of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-Disi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}