Water

After a number of days trying to get it right our team was finally able to get a huge 25 meter by 25 meter pond liner spread evenly and fill our irrigation pond over a period of 10 hours.  It was a milestone in our progress to be able to receive and store about 400 cubic meters (one cubic meter is 1000 liters) of irrigation water.  Quality testing puts it at 1600ppm salt, low enough to bring about a high quality vegetable crop but roughly 50% over salinity standards in most of the developed world for food crops.  There are very little, if any, silt or undissolved particles that could damage our drip irrigation system.

We purchase our groundwater from a neighbor at a rate of 8 Jordanian Dinar per hour.  In that hour we receive roughly 40 cubic meters of water for a unit price of .2 Jordanian Dinar (28 US Cents) per cubic meter. 

Receiving water at a rate of about 40 cubic meters per hour

Several of our neighbors came to see the new "Birka" as it is locally known