abstract:Mafraq (Arabic المفرق Al-Mafraq, local dialects Mafrag or Mafra' , "crossroads") is the capital city of Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, located 80 km to the north from the Jordanian capital Amman in crossroad to Syria to the north and Iraq to the east. It has 58,954 inhabitants (2000).
The first two workshops have already been conducted in Mafraq and Ramtha where the presence of a large Syrian population has made water conservation a high priority in the area.