A Compendium for Designers, Authorities and Practitioners
Developed in the framework of the "Decentralized Wastewater Management for Adaptation to Climate Change in Jordan (ACC Project), commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, this background report provides contextual as well as historical information that helps to understand the existing environment for wastewater management in Jordan. It also helps to position wastewater and treated wastewater use in the wider frame of adaption to climate change. The document highlights the main relevant issues that govern adaptation of water and wastewater systems as well as water and wastewater infrastructures to climate change.  A detailed discussion of how wastewater management was developed over the past decades in the kingdom and the governing regulatory frame is introduced. An overview is given on how the already developed policies, strategies and regulations related to wastewater management are implemented. The recently developed policies are presented including the decentralized wastewater management policy and the way forward is being suggested.