{"id":45,"date":"2015-03-16T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-07-30T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:39:11","slug":"water-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/2015\/03\/16\/water-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bath research could reduce water scarcity in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jordanian PhD student has come to Bath to investigate how our algae research could help clean wastewater in her country.<\/p>\n

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As one of the most water-poor countries in the world, Jordan\u2019s current water resources fall significantly below the global water scarcity line. Annual rainfall falls under 50mm in 95% of the country, nearly all the country\u2019s groundwater sources are being seriously overexploited and experts are warning that Jordan could soon face absolute water poverty.<\/p>\n

Their geographic location also means that refugee flow, reported in 2014 to be over 600,000, from Syria, Iraq and Palestine puts even more pressure on the chronically scarce resources.<\/p>\n

New ways of cutting down water wastage and overuse are in desperate demand and high on the Jordanian government\u2019s agenda. Micro-algae is a diverse group of species with many potential applications including cleaning and improving the quality of wastewater - an application which, at the moment, remains an uncharted possibility in Jordan. This is what has brought Mais Sweiss to Bath.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no one at my university in Jordan who does algae research and only a handful of people in the whole of Jordan doing research in this field\u201d, Mais says.<\/p>\n

Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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