Continued water cut from the capital for the 18th day

With the continuation of the cut of Fijeh water that feed large parts of the capital, Damascus, rising discontent among the residents of the residents of the city of Damascus, which is witnessing an interruption of water for the eighth day in a row, since the 23 of December 2016, after the closure of the forces for the water pipes after the leak of diesel fuel to the inside of these tubes, as a result of military operations and the escalation of the bombing on the Barada valley region since the 20th of December 2016, discontent with continuous water cut, which in turn led to higher prices mineral water and water sold in the capital dramatically, while citizens are dependent on wells drilled water in the streets and parks, in addition to the wells in the pools of the capital, while the system authorities organized a water pumping process from other sources to the neighborhoods and alleys in the capital, Damascus, by organizing tables to determine the timing of pumping to each region, as well as for the distribution of water through mobile tankers, a section of the population of the capital rely on the mineral water by the traders to exploit people’s urgent need, and raise their prices exponentially.

Continue cutting off water to the capital also came after the first stage of negotiations between those in charge of the Wadi Barada area which contains the headwaters of the nutritious water to the capital, where the negotiations were focused in its first phase, the withdrawal of fighters from the spring, pumping stations and its surroundings and raise the flags of the system over it, even if its not controlled by regime forces, and remained in the hands of a neutral point close to the regime and is responsible for water pumping and control operations, as has not been agreed between the two sides across the mediators and dignitaries despite the confirmation of field commanders to the Syrian observatory for human rights, they “do not use the issue of cutting off water to the capital Damascus as leverage in the ongoing in Wadi Barada military operations “, while the Syrian Observatory was informed that the leaders in the regime and Hezbollah have told mediators that” “in case it is not a serious deal, let Damascus suffer for a month to rest for other years.