The JVA became responsible for water supply to Jordan's urban areas and agriculture.
The JVA however did also play a role in land distribution as in the year of its founding a law established that all developed agricultural land could only be sold to the JVA.
[2] The JVA, under its president Omar Abdallah Dakhqan, was tasked in 1977 to seek a solution for North Jordan's water shortage.
The JVA then proposed a plan for a dam on the Yarmouk River.
[3] The Maqarin dam as it was called was positioned however on the border between Syria and Jordan, and the river flow also effected Israel.