Water shortage in Jordan — Sustainable solutions

Hadadin, Nidal; Qaqish, Maher; Akawwi, Emad; Bdour, Ahmed N.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2009.01.026

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“…25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. This stream of research all examined the need for water management programs [27], the use of treated waste water as a possible source of water and water harvesting [26], the impact of Syrian refugees on the water resources [25], and water rationalization of consumption of water [29,30]. Finally, another small stream of research has focused on generally examining the economic and monetary position of Jordan after the economic crises [32,33,34,35] and examined the impact of monetary and governmental policies on the economic situation.…”

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Jordanian’s Economic Challenges & Aspirations: An Empirical Examination

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Abstract:After the Arab spring, Arabic countries including Jordan faced a number of economic challenges. On the basis of a qualitative study of 68 Jordanian consumers, the authors address the key economic issues Jordanian consumers are currently concerned about and look forward to have them solved in the next 5-10 years. The findings suggested six main issues have been troubling the Jordanian consumer and an empirical examination of three main economic sectors was also conducted, providing a number of recommendations for improving these sectors and addressing these issues. This research is one of the first to systematically study the challenges and aspirations of Jordanian consumers after the Arab Spring.

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Jordanian’s Economic Challenges & Aspirations: An Empirical Examination

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Xiao

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“…Water consumption of Jordan is only 145 m 3 per capita annually [29], which is less than a third of the established international water poverty line of 500 m 3 per capita annually [30]. Water scarcity is a common issue in countries in the Middle East and North Africa [31].…”

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“…( 27 ) Grid stabilization constraint is set according to the criteria that energy from the conventional power sources and from brine turbine flow should cover some predetermined percentage of total electricity supply, according to the expression ( 29 ) Equations represent set of constraints for optimization in time horizon T. By setting the T = 1 h the optimization procedure reduces to the commonly used merit-ordering approach.…”

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Modeling of optimal energy flows for systems with close integration of sea water desalination and renewable energy sources: Case study for Jordan

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Pukšec

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This paper presents a new approach for modelling energy flows in complex energy systems with parallel supply of fresh water and electricity. Such systems consist of renewable energy sources (RES), desalination plant, conventional power plants and the residual brine storage which is used as energy storage. The presented method is treating energy vectors in the system as control variables to provide the optimal solution in terms of the lowest critical excess of electricity production (CEEP) and h ighest possible share of RES in the supply mix. The optimal solution for supplying the demands for fresh water and electricity is always found within the framework of model constraints which are derived from the physical limitations of the system. The presented method enables the optimization of energy flows for a larger period of time. This increases the role of energy storage when higher integration of RES in the supply mix. The method is tested on a hypothetical case of Jordan for different levels of ins talled wind and PV capacities, as well as different sizes of the brine storage. Results show that increasing the optimization horizon from one hour to 24 hours can reduce the CEEP by 80% and allow the increase of RES in the supply mix by more than 5% without violating the CEEP threshold limit of 5%. The activity of the energy (brine) storage is crucial for achieving this goal. * Corresponding author; email: luka.perkovic@fsb.hr; tel. +385 1 6168494 KeywordsOptimal energy flows; renewable energy sources (RES); desalination plant; energy storage; critical excess of electricity production (CEEP) Research highlights a new methodology for optimal management of energy systems is proposed  critical excess of electricity production is reduced by optimizing the energy flows  at the same time, the curtailment from the RES can be decreased Nomenclature

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“…Determining whether an area is subject to water stress mainly depends on the needs of human consumption and the environment (Rijsberman 2006). According to Barraqué (2003) and Xu et al (2009), water stress can be classified as resources-induced (i.e., a lack of water supply due to low water availability) or pollution-induced (i.e., a lack of available water due to water quality degradation; Barlow et al 2004, Hadadin et al 2010, Moraes et al 2010, Bond and Saunders 2011.…”

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