Amman

The water meters came first and are the least dramatic. Miyahuna began replacing 123,000 meters for mid- and high-consumption customers with remotely readable, tamper-detecting units in December 2015, and added roughly 76,000 more in 2018 with a three-year analytics contract. By January 2023 the water minister put the count at about 150,000 converted meters in Amman, out of 1.6 million nationwide, and called the pace deliberately gradual because each smart meter costs 80–100+ dinars. It has not closed the loss gap on its own: in June 2024 the IFC, the government and the utility agreed to develop a separately tendered loss-reduction project covering a third of the city.

The bus corridor is the survival story. Amman's BRT was launched in 2010, halted in 2011 after parliament and the Audit Bureau questioned its feasibility, and resumed only in 2015 after an outside review; the first two lines opened in 2021 and a third in 2022. Then the payment layer moved at a completely different speed: open-loop bank-card acceptance launched in February 2023, with a second scheme signing on weeks later. Monthly ridership reached 2.2 million by October 2023 — real change in a car-dominated capital, and still far below the design figure of more than 315,000 riders a day.

The cameras are the newest and the most carefully framed. The municipality is building a 5,500-camera network; a two-week trial in March 2025 logged 65,000 violations without issuing fines, and by June the city reported violations down 65% against that baseline. The detail worth keeping is the municipality's own: only about a quarter of the cameras issue violations at all — the majority feed traffic management and planning.