September: Operation Cermony for the Four Automatic Trash Racks at 4 Turnouts on King Abdulah Canal.        --IrWa--                April: Four Automatic Trash Racks have been installed at 4 Turnouts on King Abdulah Canal.        --IrWa--              April: 28-30/04/2008 IrWa Project Participate in 2nd MEDA Water Partners Conference. Marrakech-Morocco.        --IrWa--            April: 16/04/2008 International workshop: Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in Lebanon and Jordan:Achievements and Challenges. Amman-Jordan.        --IrWa--               November: 5/11/2007 Steering Committee Meeting at LRA Offices in Beirut.        --IrWa--          October: 24-26/10/2007 Field Visit to Lebanon by 6 NCARE Extension Agents.        --IrWa--        October: 11/10/2007 Launch negotiated procedure for installation of self cleaning grids at 4 Turnouts at King Abdullah Canal.        --IrWa--        August: 21-22/8/2007 Round Table on "Rural Community Approaches to Intergrated Water Management" Al-Azraq-Jordan.        --IrWa--        July: 22-29/7/2007 Training for 3 Soil and Water Laboratory staffs at Minoprio Foundation/Como/Italy.        --IrWa--      July: 25/6-30/7/2007 Training Al-Balqa University Students.        --IrWa--       6-7 June: a Regional Forum on Local Water Governance.        --IrWa--       May 7th : Seminar for students on IrWa Activities at al-Balqa’ Applied University.        --IrWa--       May 13th to 17th: Training on fertigation.        --IrWa--       16-17 April:  1st MEDA Water Partners Conference in Amman – Jordan.        --IrWa--       23rd April: Representatives of European Union Member States and EU Delegation in Amman visited project’s activities in Jordan Valley.        --IrWa--      

IRWA’-Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in Lebanon and Jordan- is a regional project co-financed by the European Commission through the MEDA Budget Line B7-4100, designed to address the problems related to the irrigation water management in agriculture in the two countries.

The project covers respectively in Lebanon and Jordan the following two areas: the Bekaa Valley and Jordan Valley, the main agricultural regions in each country.