Project description

The central objective of the SALAM 2 research project, which is being carried out jointly with cooperation partners from Israel, Palestine and Jordan, is the development of transboundary, integral water transfer strategies, as a combination of individual water transfer projects, to solve the region's water deficit problem and implement the IWRM concept in the partner countries. With the help of a regional water strategy, contributions to adaptation to climate change, rehabilitation of ecosystems, implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and, last but not least, to securing political stability by avoiding an expansion of the water crisis are also to be made.

Subproject 4 (Interconnected Wastewater-Groundwater Management, Wastewater Transfer and Reuse in Agriculture in the Lower Jordan Valley), led by KIT, will make significant contributions in the area of interconnected wastewater-groundwater management. The work aims to develop alternative variants for the Lower Jordan Valley (Jordanian side) for reuse of the additional treated wastewater generated from the Jordanian highlands and to identify key processes for the respective objectives in wastewater-groundwater management.