Published : 02-07-2016
Activists in the besieged areas south of Damascus reported that many cases of poisoning and enteralgia were diagnosed among the residents in the besieged areas, especially children at the Yarmouk camp and Babila due to the pollution of water lines "Al Fija" which provides those areas with drinking water.
A resident of Babila managed to create water filters for water purification of lime and impurities and sell it with low prices, within simple trials of water purification in the besieged areas. This step came after his children were poisoned due to the Fiha polluted water that is provided from the Yarmouk camp.
Em Ashraf, one of the besieged people at Babila, said "We suffered a lot from the polluted water and from not knowing its source. The water resulted in many diseases such as enteritis, Jaundice, and hepatitis."
"We were forced to buy filtered water, and to reduce the use of it. Our conditions are bad, since we buy the bottle of water by 100SYP, 20 Cent, and it is unavailable most days," she added.
Mrs. Ruqaya Alsalem, a resident in the besieged Yarmouk camp, said that the problems in the south of the capital, "not limited to drinking water contamination, but beyond that the economic blockade which is straining the civilians, rather than the food blockade that has been left recently."
Activists believe that the water problems before and after the siege has not changed, despite the claim of the Syrian regime that they connect Fija line for drinking water, and because families have to buy filtered water with low price.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian army and security forces had stopped feeding the Yarmouk refugee camp across the water network of neighboring areas on 9 September 2014, which made the relief organizations that were operating inside the camp to work on repair and operate some artesian wells.
ISIS and Nusra have exacerbated the suffering of Yarmouk people after taking control of the camp in the beginning of April 2014. In addition, they prevented the camp's residents of being provided with water following violent clashes between them in 7 April 2016. Preventing water resulted in deterioration of living conditions, where dozens of families became unable to leave hot places to safer areas, as they were prevented - as the rest of the besieged people – of having water from artesian wells.
Activists in the besieged areas south of Damascus reported that many cases of poisoning and enteralgia were diagnosed among the residents in the besieged areas, especially children at the Yarmouk camp and Babila due to the pollution of water lines "Al Fija" which provides those areas with drinking water.
A resident of Babila managed to create water filters for water purification of lime and impurities and sell it with low prices, within simple trials of water purification in the besieged areas. This step came after his children were poisoned due to the Fiha polluted water that is provided from the Yarmouk camp.
Em Ashraf, one of the besieged people at Babila, said "We suffered a lot from the polluted water and from not knowing its source. The water resulted in many diseases such as enteritis, Jaundice, and hepatitis."
"We were forced to buy filtered water, and to reduce the use of it. Our conditions are bad, since we buy the bottle of water by 100SYP, 20 Cent, and it is unavailable most days," she added.
Mrs. Ruqaya Alsalem, a resident in the besieged Yarmouk camp, said that the problems in the south of the capital, "not limited to drinking water contamination, but beyond that the economic blockade which is straining the civilians, rather than the food blockade that has been left recently."
Activists believe that the water problems before and after the siege has not changed, despite the claim of the Syrian regime that they connect Fija line for drinking water, and because families have to buy filtered water with low price.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian army and security forces had stopped feeding the Yarmouk refugee camp across the water network of neighboring areas on 9 September 2014, which made the relief organizations that were operating inside the camp to work on repair and operate some artesian wells.
ISIS and Nusra have exacerbated the suffering of Yarmouk people after taking control of the camp in the beginning of April 2014. In addition, they prevented the camp's residents of being provided with water following violent clashes between them in 7 April 2016. Preventing water resulted in deterioration of living conditions, where dozens of families became unable to leave hot places to safer areas, as they were prevented - as the rest of the besieged people – of having water from artesian wells.
