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Amman Smart Water Metering (Miyahuna/Itron NRW Reduction)

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Since 2015, Amman's utility has installed ultrasonic smart meters against Jordan's severe water scarcity — but every technical figure comes from the vendor, and no independent source confirms what's working today.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Media
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byMiyahuna (Jordan Water Company)
Scale🗺️ Regional

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Miyahuna, the Jordan Water Company serving Amman and the Zarqa and Madaba governorates, has been rolling out ultrasonic smart water meters since December 2015, when it set out to replace 123,000 meters for mid- and high-consumption customers with remotely readable, tamper-detecting units, then expanded in 2018 with roughly 76,000 Itron Intelis meters plus a three-year data-analytics contract. By January 2023 Jordan's water minister put the count at about 150,000 converted meters in Amman — out of 1.6 million meters nationwide — and called the pace deliberately gradual because each smart meter costs 80-100+ dinars. The rollout is one tool against water loss in one of the world's most water-scarce countries; in June 2024 the IFC, the government and Miyahuna agreed to develop a separately tendered loss-reduction project covering a third of Amman.

Live 📅 since 2015

📊 Impact

About 150,000 smart meters converted in Amman by January 2023 (water-minister figure), from a December 2015 start of roughly 200 units; Jordan's government targets cutting water losses by 2% a year, and the IFC estimates halving losses would supply roughly 500,000 more people.

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Sources

↗ Itron press release (22 March 2018)76,000 Intelis ultrasonic meters plus three-year data-analytics services contract (2018 expansion).
↗ Jordan Times — tamper-detection featureMeters fitted with recorders that detect tampering attempts, aimed at illegal connections and water loss.
↗ Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015)Start of the rollout: ~200 installed, 123,000 planned free replacements for mid/high-consumption customers, ultrasonic with remote reading, first area Dabouq.
↗ Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023)Water minister Mohammad Al-Najjar: ~150,000 smart meters converted in Amman, 1.6M meters kingdom-wide, 80-100+ JOD per unit, gradual investment. Arabic: 'العداد الذكي يعد مكلف الثمن… نقوم بالعملية تباعا'.
↗ IFC press release (6 June 2024)IFC/Government/Miyahuna agreement to develop a competitively tendered NRW-reduction project across one third of Amman; 2%-a-year loss-reduction target; halving losses ≈ water for 500,000 people.
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↗ Smart Energy International — original 2014 MOU coverageEarly Itron/Miyahuna cooperation and meter design for intermittent supply.
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Claim 1 clm-73267ac87b8a1964 descriptive
Miyahuna, the Jordan Water Company serving Amman and the Zarqa and Madaba governorates
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The Itron release names the utility and its service area verbatim: "Miyahuna provides water and wastewater services to more than 670,000 customers in the Kingdom of Jordan, serving the provinces of Amman, Zarqa and Madaba." The IFC release calls Miyahuna "Amman's water company" and "a state-owned water utility".
Caveat
The two sources describe the footprint differently: Itron (2018) names three governorates, while IFC (2024) says Miyahuna "supplies potable water to over 6 million residents of the Greater Amman region and the neighboring Zarqa, Madaba, and Balqa governorates" — a fourth governorate the entry does not mention.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Itron press release (22 March 2018)
  2. IFC press release (6 June 2024)
Claim 2 clm-0d84464561db033d quantitative
has been rolling out ultrasonic smart water meters since December 2015
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What the mapping says
Roya News, published 21 December 2015, reports that Miyahuna began installing smart meters in the capital days earlier, replacing mechanical meters with ultrasonic ones ("لاستبدال عدادات المياه الميكانيكية بأخرى التراسونيك"). The Jordan Times of 18 December 2015 independently dates the start: "The company started replacing regular water meters with the smart gauges this week." That the rollout continued is carried by the later sources (Itron 2018, minister's figure 2023).
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015)
  2. Jordan Times — tamper-detection feature
Claim 3 clm-8dcaa4ec68b8457d quantitative
set out to replace 123,000 meters for mid- and high-consumption customers
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Roya News quotes Miyahuna water-services director Mohammad Malkawi: the company "تستهدف توزيع وتركيب 123 ألف عداد مياه جديد مجانا على مشتركي كافة مناطق العاصمة من ذوي الاستهلاك المتوسط والكبير" — targets distributing and installing 123,000 new meters free of charge to medium- and large-consumption subscribers across all districts of the capital, defined as more than 49 cubic metres per billing cycle. The Jordan Times gives the same threshold in English: "subscribers categorised as large water consumers who use 50 cubic metres of water and more per cycle [three months]".
Caveat
Roya reports 123,000 as a target (تستهدف), not as meters already replaced.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015)
  2. Jordan Times — tamper-detection feature
Claim 4 clm-2ff047f8bd742319 descriptive
remotely readable, tamper-detecting units
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Roya News carries both properties in one sentence: the meters "تتميز بدقتها العالية،ويمكن قراءتها عن بعد،إضافة لإمكانية اكتشاف أي عبث أو تلاعب فيها" — highly accurate, readable remotely, and able to detect any tampering. The Jordan Times quotes Malkawi on the tamper half: "It is difficult to hack them as they are fitted with a recorder that detects any tampering attempts, thus limiting violations and water loss."
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015)
  2. Jordan Times — tamper-detection feature
Claim 5 clm-39be3702b9d6b97d quantitative
expanded in 2018 with roughly 76,000 Itron Intelis meters plus a three-year data-analytics contract
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The Itron release of 22 March 2018 is subtitled "Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna) Signs Three-year Contract for Analytic Services and Additional Itron Static Water Meters" and states that Miyahuna "has signed a contract with Al Darb after an international bid to buy 76,000 ultrasonic meters and software as part of Miyahuna's strategic Non-Revenue Water (NRW) reduction plan", and will "take advantage of Itron's analytic services for three years to reduce water losses". The model is named: "It will install Itron Intelis ultrasonic water meters that do not count air, which is key to address intermittent supply situations."
Caveat
Vendor announcement of a signed purchase contract, not confirmation of meters installed; the contract was signed with Itron's local partner Al Darb, and the release reports no delivery or commissioning figures.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Itron press release (22 March 2018)
Claim 6 clm-3a837043841a985a quantitative
By January 2023 Jordan's water minister put the count at about 150,000 converted meters in Amman
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Jfra News, 6 January 2023, quotes Water and Irrigation Minister Mohammad Al-Najjar: "تم التحول إلى العدادات الذكية لـ150 ألف في العاصمة عمّان" — 150,000 have been converted to smart meters in the capital Amman.
Caveat
A minister's statement to the press; no audit, no breakdown by utility or programme phase, and no reconciliation with the 123,000 target of 2015 or the 76,000 meters bought in 2018.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023)
Claim 7 clm-a0e2fc951622e2dc quantitative
out of 1.6 million meters nationwide
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Same sentence of the minister's statement in Jfra News: "ولكن يبلغ العدد الإجمالي للعدادات 1.6 مليون في مختلف أنحاء المملكة" — the total number of meters is 1.6 million across the Kingdom.
Caveat
The 1.6 million is a kingdom-wide meter stock across all water companies, while the 150,000 figure covers Amman only; the two are not a like-for-like ratio.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023)
Claim 8 clm-ba37fb33437a8ca7 quantitative
called the pace deliberately gradual because each smart meter costs 80-100+ dinars
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Jfra News reports the minister linking cost to pace: "العداد الذكي يعد مكلف الثمن ويبلغ 80 دينارا ويصل إلى أكثر من 100 دينار في بعض الأحيان، 'نحتاج إلى استثمار كبير، ونقوم بالعملية تباعا'" — the smart meter is expensive, 80 dinars and sometimes more than 100; we need large investment, and we are carrying out the process step by step.
Caveat
The source says the price reaches more than 100 dinars "في بعض الأحيان" (sometimes), not as a standing upper figure.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023)
Claim 9 clm-fe9e0c5ad53be7b5 descriptive
one of the world's most water-scarce countries
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IFC release states it almost verbatim: "Jordan struggles as one of the world's most water-scarce countries. Increasing temperatures due to climate change further reduce water availability for each person, making every drop matter to the country."
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IFC press release (6 June 2024)
Claim 10 clm-028e1fe0c0eee245 quantitative
in June 2024 the IFC, the government and Miyahuna agreed to develop a separately tendered loss-reduction project covering a third of Amman
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The release is dated "Amman, Jordan, June 6, 2024" and names all three parties: "IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the Government of Jordan and Amman's water company, Miyahuna, today signed a collaboration agreement". On the project: "IFC will work with both entities to co-develop a project that can attract private sector investments in the NRW space. The project will be then tendered competitively to optimize water-management efficiency and reduce water loss substantially across one third of Amman's area."
Caveat
At the date of the release this is an agreement to co-develop a project; the tender had not been issued and no contractor, budget or timetable is named.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IFC press release (6 June 2024)
Claim 11 clm-b0b77081a0a08f80 quantitative
About 150,000 smart meters converted in Amman by January 2023 (water-minister figure)
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Jfra News, 6 January 2023, attributes the figure to Water and Irrigation Minister Mohammad Al-Najjar: "وأضاف الوزير النجار، أنه تم التحول إلى العدادات الذكية لـ150 ألف في العاصمة عمّان". The entry's own parenthesis marks it as a minister's figure, which is what the source supports.
Caveat
Self-reported by the responsible ministry and never independently audited; the source gives no cut-off date beyond the article's own publication.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023)
Claim 12 clm-5a367771ed7efa6f quantitative
from a December 2015 start of roughly 200 units
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Roya News of 21 December 2015: Miyahuna "انتهت من تركيب نحو 200 عداد" — has finished installing about 200 meters — and names the first district: "أولى مناطق العاصمة التي خضعت لتركيب هذه العدادات ... هي منطقة دابوق حيث تم تركيب نحو 200 عداد" (Dabouq).
Caveat
The ~200 units are the count at the moment of reporting, days into the rollout, and all in a single district (Dabouq) — a starting snapshot rather than a defined programme phase.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015)
Claim 13 clm-360b948cd5ff2adf quantitative
Jordan's government targets cutting water losses by 2% a year
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IFC release states: "This long-term project is aligned with the World Bank Group's strategy and with the government's target to reduce water loss by 2 percent a year."
Caveat
A stated government target, not a measured result; the release reports no baseline loss rate and no progress against the target.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IFC press release (6 June 2024)
Claim 14 clm-eda25c587d023efe quantitative
the IFC estimates halving losses would supply roughly 500,000 more people
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Quoted in the release from Hela Cheikhrouhou, IFC Regional Vice President for the Middle East, Central Asia, Türkiye, Afghanistan and Pakistan: "Cutting water loss by half can supply water for about half a million people in Jordan."
Caveat
An executive's statement in a press release, with no published method, baseline or assumption about per-capita consumption; it is also a Jordan-wide figure, while the project it accompanies covers one third of Amman.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IFC press release (6 June 2024)
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Operator
Miyahuna (Jordan Water Company)
Actor types
utility
Funding model
mixed
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6 source dossiers

Itron press release (22 March 2018) na.itron.com · 2 linked claims

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2018-03-22
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Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-21
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76,000 Intelis ultrasonic meters plus three-year data-analytics services contract (2018 expansion).

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Jordan Times — tamper-detection feature jordantimes.com · 3 linked claims

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Record last verified
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Meters fitted with recorders that detect tampering attempts, aimed at illegal connections and water loss.

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Roya News — 'مياهنا: عدادات مياه ذكية في عمّان' (21 Dec 2015) royanews.tv · 4 linked claims

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2015-12-21
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2026-08-07
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Start of the rollout: ~200 installed, 123,000 planned free replacements for mid/high-consumption customers, ultrasonic with remote reading, first area Dabouq.

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Jfra News — 'عدادات مياه ذكية بملايين الدنانير في عمان' (6 Jan 2023) jfranews.com.jo · 4 linked claims

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2023-01-06
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Record last verified
2026-08-07
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2026-08-21
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Water minister Mohammad Al-Najjar: ~150,000 smart meters converted in Amman, 1.6M meters kingdom-wide, 80-100+ JOD per unit, gradual investment. Arabic: 'العداد الذكي يعد مكلف الثمن… نقوم بالعملية تباعا'.

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IFC press release (6 June 2024) ifc.org · 5 linked claims

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2024-06-06
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Record last verified
2026-08-07
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2026-08-21
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IFC/Government/Miyahuna agreement to develop a competitively tendered NRW-reduction project across one third of Amman; 2%-a-year loss-reduction target; halving losses ≈ water for 500,000 people.

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Claims linked
Smart Energy International — original 2014 MOU coverage smart-energy.com · background

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Name not classified · smart-energy.com
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Record last verified
2026-08-07
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2026-08-21
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Early Itron/Miyahuna cooperation and meter design for intermittent supply.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Amman Smart Water Metering (Miyahuna/Itron NRW Reduction)” — Amman, Jordan. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/amman-smart-water-metering/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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