Action Plan to Reduce Water Sector Losses (Structural Benchmark).

This Plan to Reduce Water Sector Losses is a nationwide sectoral document that constitutes an integral part with a set of documents included in the National Water Strategy 2016-2025. It aims at (i) identifying and planning the actions and activities needed to achieve the full cost recovery in the water sector; (ii) satisfying and fulfilling the benchmark requested by the IMF report to bring the energy and water sectors back to cost recovery; and (iii) reducing the annual losses (in particular systems losses) as well as problems with revenue collection. To achieve the aforementioned goals, main interventions shall target (i) the water tariff, that should however remain beyond socially acceptable limits; (ii) the non-revenue water, related to the nature of water scarcity and supply, in particular the technical water losses (mainly due to the age of the municipal networks) and the administrative losses and illegal connections; and (iii) internal inefficiencies related to energy inputs for pumping water. The actions to be enforced are divided in two directions (1) revenue improvement, such as increased charges, improvement of collection efficiency, collection of unpaid bills, reduction of illegal consumption, increasing of sewerage connection ratio, and increasing of connection fees; and (2) cost reduction through improved pumping efficiency, reduction of technical water losses, introduction of renewable energy into water, and automation of water system operations.
The Policy contains 2 Annexes. Annex 1 is an Investment Plan that lists the projects to be implemented together with the expenditure for the period 2013 - 2016. Annex 2 is a document of 2013 that analyzes the Cost of hosting Syrian Refugees on Jordan’s water sector, including the environmental costs due to the continuous disposing of the liquid wastes from the camps.