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Jordan, a primarily desert country in the Middle East, is located in a region of political instability generating enormous masses of permanent refugees and high population growth. It is severely challenged by, among many issues, its water, energy, and solid-waste management problems: severe water scarcity, high energy costs and import dependency, and no properly managed solid-waste infrastructure. There are several short-term, mid-term, and long-term potential solutions to Jordan's rapidly increasing urban water and energy demands and solid-waste generation from non-agricultural and non-industrial activities. It would be wise to have an ongoing national dialogue to identify and assess current or baseline conditions, envision a mission going forward, and detail the visions of where the country wants to be and how to get there in terms of these urban water, energy and solid-waste challenges over short, medium, and long terms.  Some key components of long-term solutions include: ·          Improved social marketing, water and energy conservation, co-energy generation, artificial groundwater recharge and treated wastewater recharge basins and dry surface reservoirs ·          Transnational water and energy cooperation and transfers ·          Exploration and development of national water and energy resources, including deep groundwater, desalination of mineralized springs and well water, wastewater collection and treatment and reuse, and of course taping national wind, solar, oil and gas, and geothermal resources ·          More expensively, there are geothermal and hydropower opportunities, nuclear energy, and the Red-Dead and/or Med-Dead water and energy potential ·          Solid-waste will need the infrastructure, laws, regulations, ordinances, and incentives with public support to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and waste-to-energy initiatives from what is now considered disposal trash or garbage ·          Energy generation from organic wastes such as food wastes, crop residues, and wastewater treatment plant biosolids or sludges to methane gas as a sustainable renewable energy source

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The Department of Defense (DOD) relies heavily on petroleum-based fuel for mobility energy the energy required for moving and sustaining its forces and weapons platforms for military operations. Dependence on foreign oil, projected increases in worldwide demand, and rising oil costs, as well as the significant logistics burden associated with moving fuel on the battlefield, will likely require DOD to address its mobility energy demand. GAO was asked to (1) identify key efforts under way to reduce mobility energy demand and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has established an overarching organizational framework to guide and oversee these efforts. GAO reviewed DOD documents, policies, and studies, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending that DOD establish an overarching organizational framework for mobility energy to improve the department's ability to guide and oversee mobility energy reduction efforts. To establish such a framework, DOD should designate an executive-level Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) official to be accountable for mobility energy matters, develop a comprehensive strategic plan, and improve DOD's business processes. In addition, the military services should designate executive-level focal points to establish effective communication and coordination among OSD and the military services. DOD partially concurred with the recommendations.

The Department of Defense (DOD) relies heavily on petroleum-based fuel for mobility energy the energy required for moving and sustaining its forces and weapons platforms for military operations. Dependence on foreign oil, projected increases in worldwide demand, and rising oil costs, as well as the significant logistics burden associated with moving fuel on the battlefield, will likely require DOD to address its mobility energy demand. GAO was asked to (1) identify key efforts under way to reduce mobility energy demand and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has established an overarching organizational framework to guide and oversee these efforts. GAO reviewed DOD documents, policies, and studies, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending that DOD establish an overarching organizational framework for mobility energy to improve the department's ability to guide and oversee mobility energy reduction efforts. To establish such a framework, DOD should designate an executive-level Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) official to be accountable for mobility energy matters, develop a comprehensive strategic plan, and improve DOD's business processes. In addition, the military services should designate executive-level focal points to establish effective communication and coordination among OSD and the military services. DOD partially concurred with the recommendations.

The Department of Defense (DOD) relies heavily on petroleum-based fuel for mobility energy the energy required for moving and sustaining its forces and weapons platforms for military operations. Dependence on foreign oil, projected increases in worldwide demand, and rising oil costs, as well as the significant logistics burden associated with moving fuel on the battlefield, will likely require DOD to address its mobility energy demand. GAO was asked to (1) identify key efforts under way to reduce mobility energy demand and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has established an overarching organizational framework to guide and oversee these efforts. GAO reviewed DOD documents, policies, and studies, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending that DOD establish an overarching organizational framework for mobility energy to improve the department's ability to guide and oversee mobility energy reduction efforts. To establish such a framework, DOD should designate an executive-level Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) official to be accountable for mobility energy matters, develop a comprehensive strategic plan, and improve DOD's business processes. In addition, the military services should designate executive-level focal points to establish effective communication and coordination among OSD and the military services. DOD partially concurred with the recommendations.

The Department of Defense (DOD) relies heavily on petroleum-based fuel for mobility energy the energy required for moving and sustaining its forces and weapons platforms for military operations. Dependence on foreign oil, projected increases in worldwide demand, and rising oil costs, as well as the significant logistics burden associated with moving fuel on the battlefield, will likely require DOD to address its mobility energy demand. GAO was asked to (1) identify key efforts under way to reduce mobility energy demand and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has established an overarching organizational framework to guide and oversee these efforts. GAO reviewed DOD documents, policies, and studies, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending that DOD establish an overarching organizational framework for mobility energy to improve the department's ability to guide and oversee mobility energy reduction efforts. To establish such a framework, DOD should designate an executive-level Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) official to be accountable for mobility energy matters, develop a comprehensive strategic plan, and improve DOD's business processes. In addition, the military services should designate executive-level focal points to establish effective communication and coordination among OSD and the military services. DOD partially concurred with the recommendations.