AQABA, Jordan — Water-poor Jordan launches a project using seawater to produce crops with clean energy.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, which contributed most of the $3.7 million cost, inaugurate the facility Thursday in the kingdom’s Red Sea port city of Aqaba.
Haakon tells reporters he was “impressed by the way innovative ideas have been translated into a plant the size of four football fields.”
The facility, surrounded by rocky desert, uses seawater to cool greenhouses. Desalinated seawater irrigates crops, such as pesticide-free cucumbers. A small desalination station is irrigated by solar energy.
Last month, a report by Stanford University suggested that Jordan, one of the world’s driest countries, could face more severe droughts unless new technologies are applied in farming and other sectors.
— AP
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