The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a five-year, $275 million Compact with the Government of
Jordan (GOJ) to reduce poverty and increase income in Zarqa Governorate through increases in the supply of water
available to households and enterprises through improvements in the efficiency of water delivery, the extension of
wastewater collection, and the expansion of wastewater treatment. The Compact entered into force in December 2011,
commencing the five-year implementation period scheduled to end in December 2016. The MCC Jordan Compact
includes three inter-linked projects:
(i) The Water Network Project (WNP) consists of two activities, a) the rehabilitation and restructuring of
water supply transmission and distribution infrastructure, and replacement of domestic water meters,
with the aim of improving the overall water system efficiency, reducing water losses and facilitating the
transition from periodic distribution under high pressure to more consistent, gravity-fed distribution; and
b) the Water Smart Homes (WSH) activity, a household-level intervention aimed at improving in-house
water storage and sanitation that consists of a general outreach campaign, as well as delivery of
infrastructure subsidies and technical assistance to poor households.5
(ii) The Wastewater Network Project (WWNP) encompasses the expansion, rehabilitation and
reinforcement of the wastewater network in West and East Zarqa, as well as West Ruseifa, aimed at
improving the overall wastewater system efficiency and expanding the capture of municipal wastewater
for reuse in agriculture downstream, possibly making additional freshwater available to the population
of Zarqa Governorate through future wastewater substitutions for conventional freshwater..
(iii) The As-Samra Expansion Project (AEP) is designed to raise the capacity of the existing treatment plant
with the aim of providing proper handling of increased volumes and loads of both oxygen-demanding
material and suspended solids, allowing treatment of the additional wastewater volumes resulting from
the WNP and WWNP investments.