The Lower House Agriculture and Water Committee has followed up the measures of establishing a new water purification plant in the Tafilah Governorate, south Amman, with an expected total cost of JD14 million and an operating capacity of 7500 cubic meters per day, head of the Committee, deputy Ibrahim Shahahdeh said.

Shahahdeh stressed that the Ministry of Water and Irrigation will soon begin the first phase of the construction of the plant, which will provide new areas in the governorate with sewage services, noting that the current operating plant is over 25 years old.

Manager of Tafilah Water, Mustafa Zanon, said the purification plant, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development, will increase the number of people served by sewer services through the use of highly technical specification stations, adding that the Ministry of Water plans to set up environmental friendly projects in Wadi Ghweir.