Shortage and pollution of drinking water in rural Deir ez-Zor | Residents use water tanks and drink Euphrates river water

 

Some areas in Deir ez-Zor countryside suffer from a shortage and pollution of drinking water, where some people resort to drilling artesian wells whose water is usually undrinkable, or to drawing water from the Euphrates River for domestic use through tanks, costing the people approximately 6,000 Syrian pounds for a single water transport. These wells are also contaminated like the rest of the water resources available in the region.

 

The suffering of the residents of al-Sama’a neighbourhood in the city of Al-Kishqiya in eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, has been going on for 10 years, with drinking water being cut off and contaminated, where residents of the neighbourhood have made several requests to the “Self-Administration” officials to solve the drinking water problem, but to no avail to date.

According to local sources, the replacement of the 1,500-meter-long pumping line from the main street will allow water to reach their homes, without receiving a clear response from water officials in the area.