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Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Saud on Tuesday briefed the Cabinet on procedures taken by the ministry to implement recommendations regarding the King Abdullah Canal.

In March this year, the canal was contaminated with pollutants originating from the Israeli side of the Yarmouk River and the Lower House Permanent Bureau formed an ad hoc committee to investigate the incident, which held Israel accountable for the pollution, in game machinesa report issued earlier this year.

Abu Saud told the Cabinet yesterday that the ministry has allocated around JD500,000 for the rehabilitation of the canal, noting that work is under way to erect a fence alongside the waterway, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

He added that maintenance work will be carried out on the canal each year before the onset of winter.

The water minister noted that a higher committee was formed to monitor the quality of water in the canal, with representatives from scientific research institutes and the ministries of health and environment.

Prime Minister Nader Dahabi had tasked the Ministry of Water and Irrigation with drawing up an action plan to implement the House fact-finding committee’s recommendations, which include protecting the canal and the surrounding area and conducting freshwater pearl jewelrytests to assess the quality of water.

The House committee also found Water Ministry employees responsible for not handling the problem in a timely manner.

In its report, the committee noted that the contaminated water did not reach the Zai Water Treatment Plant, adding that Jordan lost 750,000 cubic metres of cultured pearl jewelrywater as it closed a tunnel channelling water from the river to the canal as a result of the pollution.

On March 12, the ministry said it stopped pumping water from the canal after it detected oil waste and sewage in the Yarmouk River, which is a shared water resource for both Jordan and Israel and is one of the main tributaries of the Jordan River.

The Jordan Press Association (JPA) has agreed to drop a lawsuit over the establishment of a “columnists club” after club founders agreed to work under the JPA's umbrella, an association official said on Tuesday.

The founders of the club, which was licensed by the Ministry of Culture, will officially have 10 days to come under the association’s supervision for the case to be dropped, according to JPA Vice President Hikmat Momani.

"The JPA council has taken a decision not to go ahead with the lawsuit after club founders informed the association of their approval to work under the <a href="http://www.onepearls.com">cultured pearl jewelry</a> JPA's supervision," Momani told The Jordan Times yesterday.

He added that the JPA has decided to establish its own club for columnists to be open to association members within the next two weeks.

Last month, the JPA said it would bring a lawsuit against the government for licensing a new club for columnists, which the association says violates <a href="http://www.onepearls.com">pearl earrings</a> Article 2 of JPA Law No. 15 for the year 1998, which requires all journalists to be members of the association.

As many of the club's founding council are not JPA members, the club’s licensing represented “a clear violation of the JPA Law,” and “undermines the association's mission and objectives in overseeing media affairs in the Kingdom," JPA President Abul Wahab Zgheilat previously told The Jordan Times.

He stressed that the club should have been established under JPA supervision in order to keep all media activities under one umbrella.

Club founders stressed that the <a href="http://www.onepearls.com">cultured pearl jewelry</a> group was formed to bring together writers of dailies, weeklies and news websites with politicians in workshops to discuss news developments, not to regulate the media sector

Mohammad Absi, one of Amman's oldest working sewing machine repairmen, said he discovered his talent one day in the early 1950s when his mother's sewing machine broke.

When his mother went to the pearl jewelry Singer Company to have the machine repaired, the company demanded 350 fils, which was a high price at the time, he explained.

So the young Absi stayed up all pearl earrings night trying to fix the machine himself, and after hours of work, succeeded.

"I was really thrilled to bits when I fixed it because I had discovered my hidden talent. I shouted in the middle of the night, 'I did it!'" Absi, now 73, told The Jordan Times.

When Absi, also known as Abu cultured pearl jewelry Khamis, finished school in 1954, he joined the Arab Sewing Machine Factory to learn the basics of the craft, taking a job as an apprentice and earning JD6 per month

While I was at the factory, I learned that they sent machines to Lebanon to be fixed because nobody in Jordan knew how to repair them," he said.

Absi then moved to Lebanon to work in a repair shop, whose owner Mohammad Gloul was so impressed with him that he sent him to Germany for a pearl earrings three-month training course in 1958.

Absi said his first big break came soon thereafter when Faisal Tabaa, manager of the Industrial Development Corporation, went to Lebanon and asked Gloul for an experienced technician to operate and repair sewing machines, as the corporation intended to establish a factory in Amman.

"They were so amazed by my experience, they offered me JD25 per month," the repairman added.

Absi's reputation spread, and when he faced problems with the factory's management, Tawfik Tabaa, the manager of the Tricot Chic factory, hired him at wheat pearl once.

"At first, the factory was established on Salt Street in 1961, which was suitable for such a large enterprise as the area was deserted. Only the Civil Defence Department building was there," Absi noted, adding that the factory, which moved to Jabal Amman later in 1961, paid him JD35 per month.

In 1963, after the factory's new pearl jewelry partners, the Nouri family from Syria, reduced his salary to JD15, Absi decided to leave Tricot Chic and start his own repair shop.

After searching for an appropriate location for six months, Absi said he rented a small shop in downtown Amman next to the Kadourah factory, on the advice of its owner Talaat Kadourah.

At the time, the area was known as the cultured pearl jewelry Prince's Passage, and was home to numerous famous shops such as Zahran Studio, whose owner was the former photographer for the Royal Court, and the Assad Sports Shop, which catered to British officers, according to Absi.

For a young upstart like Absi, it was difficult to attract attention among many better-known companies such as Singer, he said, but conditions gradually turned in his favour. Owners of garment factories in Amman began asking for his help in procuring sewing machines through his game machines connections at the Japanese sewing machine company Jockey, as well as in fixing their machines.

Although the Prince's Passage has passed its glory days, Absi is still in business, running the shop with the help of his four sons.

He guarantees the quality of his work with a one-year warranty, under which, if a customer's machine breaks again within one year of his repairs, he will repair pearl earrings it again for free. According to Absi, however, he has never had to do so.

Absi noted that although his trade has not made him rich, it has enabled him to take care of his family, a fact with which he said he is satisfied.

"I'm totally content. This craft has allowed me to meet my needs and live a decent life.