There is growing coordination and cooperation between the water and energy sectors in Jordan. However, a water-energy nexus approach is seen as a useful management tool by the water sector more than it is by the energy sector. Strong political leadership will be required for a far-reaching adoption of the nexus approach. Increasing policy connections between Jordan’s water and energy sectors will lead to improved technical decision-making but major resource allocation decisions at the national level remain inherently political, regardless of how government departments and authorities are structured.

Adopting a water-energy nexus approach in Jordan increases the potential for transboundary nexus cooperation with Israel and Palestine to exploit the potential of solar electricity production in Jordan and desalinated water production in Israel. Transboundary nexus co-operation in the medium term is desirable and even likely, but only to the extent that a break down in cooperation would not threaten the security of either country. Security concerns mean that such cooperation is likely to be limited in scale initially but via a nexus approach could build overtime to form a minority of water or energy supplies, occurring in parallel to other water and energy supply augmentation schemes.

The case study of Jordan shows that adopting a water-energy nexus approach can assist in ensuring water and energy management occurs more on the basis of technical and economic criteria, however, major water and energy decisions remain political in nature and thus politics will continue to exert significant influence.

约旦的水和能源部门之间的协调与合作不断增加。但是，与能源部门相比，水能关系方法被水务部门视为一种有用的管理工具。广泛采用联系方式将需要强有力的政治领导。约旦水和能源部门之间越来越多的政策联系将改善技术决策，但无论政府部门和主管部门的结构如何，国家一级的主要资源分配决策本质上都是政治性的。

在约旦采用水能联系方式增加了与以色列和巴勒斯坦跨界联系合作的潜力，以开发约旦的太阳能发电潜力和以色列的淡化水生产潜力。中期而言，跨界联系合作是可取的，甚至可能的，但前提是合作破裂不会威胁到任何一个国家的安全。安全方面的担忧意味着这种合作最初可能会受到规模的限制，但通过联系方法可能会加班以形成少量的水或能源供应，与其他水和能源供应增加计划同时进行。

约旦的案例研究表明，采用水-能源联系方法可以帮助确保更多地根据技术和经济标准进行水和能源管理，但是，重大的水和能源决策仍然具有政治性质，因此政治将继续发挥重大影响。