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The first section (The Policy Context) presents the water policy context of Jordan, in which different pricing policies have been recently implemented. The following section (The Farming Sytems in the Two Study Areas) sets the context of the study and describes the LJRB and the irrigated farming systems of the two regions. Section 3 (Pricing Water to Control Groundwater Overabstraction in the Highlands) and section 4 (Water Pricing in the Jordan Valley) investigate the efficiency of pricing water in reducing groundwater abstraction in the Jordanian Highlands, and in reducing agricultural freshwater