JEWP In Brief

Since the beginning of the year 2000, UJRC has established a specialized unit for water and environment, known as the Jordanian Environmental Watch program, for dealing with local and regional environmental issues. This watch program, considered as a forum for dialogue on policies related to environment, is concerned with organizing scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and training courses as well as researches studies and reports about the environmental situation and conditions.

The importance of the Jordanian Environmental Watch Program (JEWP) lies in the need for a professional and independent tool that can, on its own initiative, control and follow up on the Jordanian environmental situation and discuss various government policies in that regard. The JEWP will focus on the following main environmental issues: The water security problem, the right means to manage water and provide drinkable water, the adequate ways for preventing water pollution, and depletion of clean water, and for minimizing air and soil pollution as well as usage of insecticides and fertilizers in addition to other environmental problems in Jordan.

A team of key researchers a number of research assistants and media personal work at JEWP which is supervised by advisory committee comprising environmentalists well-known for their experience, interests and specialization from the public and private sectors as well as academic circle.