Amman: The Jordanian-Syrian Joint Technical Committee held its inaugural meeting at the Al-Wehda Dam, which lies on the border between Jordan and Syria, to discuss equitable water distribution in the Yarmouk Basin and explore broader cooperation on shared water resources.
According to Jordan News Agency, the meeting was co-led by Hisham Haisa, Secretary General of the Jordan Valley Authority and head of the Jordanian Water Committee, and Osama Abu Zaid, Assistant Syrian Minister of Energy for Water Resources and head of the Syrian delegation. Omar Salameh, Assistant Secretary General for Media Affairs at the Ministry of Water, reported that both parties reached agreements on several key points to ensure fair water allocation within the Yarmouk Basin. They also discussed developing the basin, enhancing cloud seeding efforts, joint water infrastructure projects, and remote monitoring and control of water sources and dams.
The meeting follows recent Jordanian-Syrian discussions in the fields of energy and water, held just last week. Abu Zaid expressed a strong commitment to cooperation, even proposing the possibility of providing Jordan with water during the summer months, contingent on Syria's available resources.
The two countries agreed to reconvene for another meeting of the joint committee next week in Damascus to continue the dialogue and resolve pending issues. Earlier in the day, the Syrian delegation met with Minister of Water and Irrigation, Raed Abu Soud, and visited the ministry's Control and Operations Center. This facility is equipped with advanced technologies for water management, emergency response, and remote monitoring of water resources, and the Syrian side expressed interest in implementing similar systems in Syria.