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• TITLE: Water Resources and Water Services Infrastructure and Its Vulnerability to Extreme Events—The Case of Jordan

  AUTHORS: Elias Salameh

  KEYWORDS: Jordan, Critical Infrastructure, Extreme Events, Cascading Effects, Robustness Needs

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, Vol.11 No.2, February 23, 2023

  ABSTRACT: This study discussed the water sector as a critical infrastructural element in Jordan where the sector is exposed to the extreme events. The exposure of the country to extreme events has initiated this study. Such events are Pollution accidents, flooding, draughts, overexploitation, failure in electricity supply, climate changes, earthquakes, landslides, failure of dams, failure of wastewater treatment plants, failure of desalination plants, sabotage, fire, water theft, migration and demographic changes (immigration and urban migration), relations to neighboring countries, epidemics, and others. These extreme events are discussed in this article and the results show that failures in the water infrastructure and water supply, in Jordan, with its water sector situation have rigorous percussions on the country’s health, food supply, economy, societal stability, the built environment, and on other water-related issues. The study concludes that developing national programs to protect the water infrastructure in the water-fragile country has become very crucial to reach a robust and resilient water sector which not only means providing the inhabitants with quantitatively sufficient and qualitatively healthy water but also aims to incorporate guaranteeing social, economic and political stability.