Government-civil society efforts to ensure potable water to citizens in Hasaka as the Turkish occupation continues to block locals’ access to water

HASAKA, (ST)- The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries continue with their crime of preventing citizens in the Syrian city of Hasaka and its countryside from having access to drinking water after they turned off the Allouk water station, the main source of potable water for the city.

In response, the Syrian government and civil society intensified their efforts to ensure water to the locals through bringing in water tankers and filling the water tanks scattered in different neighborhoods in the city.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) also joined the government’s efforts and launched initiatives to ensure enough quantities of water to alleviate the dangerous impacts of the Turkish occupation’s crime of cutting water supplies for Hasaka for more than 22 days and threatening the lives of a million people in the city.

Director of the Hasaka Water Establishment Mahmoud Al-Okla said in a statement to SANA reporter on Sunday that “the establishment in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and a number of humanitarian organizations operating in the province, have ensured potable water tankers and filled some 100 water tanks throughout the city of Hasaka in order to secure the needs of the people.”

 He pointed out that the establishment is intensifying efforts to expand cooperation with these organizations in order to increase the number of water tanks and meet the need of more neighborhoods in the city. 

In the same context, a number of people in Hasaka launched several personal initiatives to secure drinking water so reflecting a state of social cooperation and solidarity in light of the water crisis that the city is experiencing.

Hamda Mustafa