KOICA holds kick-off meeting for Mastaba water project

AMMAN — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on Wednesday held a kick-off meeting for the project “Rehabilitation of the Water Network of Mastaba District in Jerash Governorate” (2022-2025), a project valued at $9.131 million.

KOICA and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation signed the Record of Discussion (RoD) for this project on March 23, according to a statement from KOICA.

The meeting was chaired by the Secretary-General of the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ), the Jordanian implementing agency, in the presence of the Country Director of KOICA Jordan Office and officials from both Korean water experts and WAJ, to introduce the newly assigned Project Management Consultancy team, headed by Michael Jin from ISAN Corporation, and to discuss the project plan.

The Jerash-based project will build and design modern networks in the Mastaba area and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to monitor the quality of water, supply and demand in the Mastaba area.

KOICA has cooperated with WAJ in different water projects to reduce the burden on the Jordanian government by increasing the water supply and reducing non-revenue water in different regions in Jordan. Since 2019, KOICA has been supporting a project rennovating the water networks in the Faqoua area of Karak Governorate, which is expected to be completed in 2024.