Published : 13-02-2015
Water was cut for 157 days at the houses of almost 20,000 residents of the Yarmouk camp in Damascus, a long period in which the residents tried to alleviate the negative impacts of this crisis by relying on the neighboring areas to secure a part of the daily water use. The water cut in those areas forced the residents to rely almost completely at the artesian wells, which most of them are polluted with dust and sediments. The polluted water may cause many diseases, especially the diseases of kidney, yet, despite all this risk the residents are helpless to find another source of water.
In an attempt to shed light on this problem, the UNRWA published a short video that shows a child while he fills gray water manually. It is mentioned that many activists inside the camp have warned repeatedly about the spread of many kidney diseases as a result of drinking the polluted water.
Water was cut for 157 days at the houses of almost 20,000 residents of the Yarmouk camp in Damascus, a long period in which the residents tried to alleviate the negative impacts of this crisis by relying on the neighboring areas to secure a part of the daily water use. The water cut in those areas forced the residents to rely almost completely at the artesian wells, which most of them are polluted with dust and sediments. The polluted water may cause many diseases, especially the diseases of kidney, yet, despite all this risk the residents are helpless to find another source of water.
In an attempt to shed light on this problem, the UNRWA published a short video that shows a child while he fills gray water manually. It is mentioned that many activists inside the camp have warned repeatedly about the spread of many kidney diseases as a result of drinking the polluted water.
