**4.3.1.2 Urban agriculture**

A statistical survey of urban agriculture was conducted by the Department of Statistics in (1999). Thirteen thousand households were surveyed in various regions around the greater Amman area. Extrapolated to the whole population, the survey's findings show the following:


These findings suggest that an urban landscape program, particularly in the Amman region, may provide some water conservation potential. Although not likely to be a large quantity of water, it nonetheless would represent an area of savings worth exploring further.
