(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most water pumping stations on both banks of the Euphrates River have stopped contributing to .the recovery of the water trade in the eastern province of Deir Ez Zor, amid water shortage crisis
Ahmed al-Ali, one of the workers at the Ziban water station told Zaman al-Wasl that the water station in his town sometimes works 4 hours a day. It cannot work throughout the week due to power outages and the lack of sufficient quantities of fuel to operate the station generators. Each town or village has a station or two along the bank of the Euphrates River to pump and purify the water.
The water station in al-Basira city works only 3 days a week only without the adding sterilization substances. The lack of sterilizing substances spreads infectious diseases as the Euphrates is polluted, but it remains the only source of water for drinking and irrigation in the region, according to al-Ali.
Residents say that the reduced function of water stations and lack of water has resulted in the widespread phenomena of mobile water tanks which people to buy for around 1000 Syrian Pounds per tank.
The residents did not hide their fear regarding the suitability of this water as drinking water because they do not know the source.
In the western countryside, many pumping stations are located along the banks of the Euphrates in parallel to the villages in the area including the al-Mahata, al-Buwaytiyya, al-Kibar, al-Hermeshiya, Ayyash, al-Baghiliya and Safira Tahtani stations.
The regime Ministry of Water Resources said the transfer and distribution of drinking water in Deir Ez Zor is undertaken through more than 115 purification stations and different capacities distributed along both sides of the Euphrates River which is the only source of water in the province.
Zaman Al Wasl
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