Drought-hit Jordan ‘critical’ as water sources dry up ...Middle East

GHOR AL-HADITHA: Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard.“Look at how the land thirsts,“ he said, walking on cracked earth stained with white salt patches, waving at the 5 ha of his farm. “Everything I planted... is dead.”He inspected a tomato the size of a marble that had dried up before it ripened.“If there had been water, this tomato would have been as big as my fist,“ he said.Daoud, 25, rents the land in Ghor al-Haditha, around 80 km south of the capital Amman.The fertile area is home to many market gardens, but drought has taken a heavy toll.“W

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