Capture and retain heavy rainfall in Jordan

The Middle East is particularly affected by climate change effects and extreme weather events, such as droughts and heavy rainfall. In Jordan, repeated heavy rainfall events in recent years have led to flash floods with enormous damages. Minimizing such damages, but also maximizing the benefits of heavy rainfall via improved water retention in one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, is the research topic of CapTain Rain.

The project “CapTain Rain – Capture and retain heavy rainfalls in Jordan” is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding measure “CLIENT II – International Partnerships for Sustainable Innovation” in the context of the framework program “Research for Sustainable Development” (FONA). If you would like to learn more about the funding measure, watch the video of the CLIENT II YouTube channel with a short portrait of ongoing research projects in the MENA region.

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Within the Jordanian-German research project CapTain Rain numerous products were jointly developed for the two study areas Amman and Wadi Musa. These results are now available for the Jordanian partners and stakeholders. Comprehensive descriptions of the different research approaches and products as well as further information about the project are now also available in the CapTain Rain wiki.

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On Sunday, June 30, 2024, the final event of the CapTain Rain project took place at the Al-Hussein Cultural Center in Amman. It was a very successful gathering with more than 70 participants. A further event to celebrate the successful end of the CapTain Rain project was conducted in Wadi Musa on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the Petra Guesthouse. There, the German partners met with 15 members from PDTRA.

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The 8th Europe Congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) took place in Lisbon from the 4th to the 7th of June 2024. It was organized by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) of Portugal.  441 participants from 39 countries from a diverse spectrum of disciplines attended the conference. Among them from the CapTain Rain project Prof. Dr. Dörte Ziegler, Dr. Clara Hohmann and Christina Maus, all from the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences.