Take office as Mayor of Amman

Amman, Jordan · 40 people · Heritage City

The Greater Amman Municipality and the Jordan Ministry of Water and Irrigation manage one of the world's most water scarce capitals, operating a twice weekly piped water rationing system with mandatory rooftop tank infrastructure, developing the National Water Carrier, coordinating Amman BRT bus rapid transit expansion, and preserving the 6,000-seat Roman Theatre alongside active commercial city centre zoning.

The record Amman keeps on the Board of Mayors is still unwritten. Take office and write its opening chapter.

The city

Landmark: Roman Theatre & Amman Citadel (Jabal al-Qaʾla).

• The Jordan Ministry of Water and Irrigation operates one of the world's most complex urban water rationing systems — Amman residents receive piped water only once or twice per week, requiring virtually every household and building to maintain private rooftop storage tanks, with the municipality administering a water trucking network to supply informal settlements and monitoring city wide distribution node pressures across a system serving over four million people.
• The Greater Amman Municipality manages active archaeological zones beneath the commercial city centre — the Amman Citadel sits atop a hill continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age, and any utility upgrade or road widening project in the downtown can unearth Roman, Byzantine, or Umayyad remains requiring immediate Antiquities Authority intervention, making infrastructure delivery uniquely slow and costly in the historic core.

How a term works

Take office and each day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is judged on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, within the city's budget, and every term adds to the record Amman keeps on the Board of Mayors. Mayors message and confer with one another, form councils, trade with neighbouring cities and send aid where it is needed. Cities rise together.

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