Government and civil initiatives to provide Hasaka city’s residents with water as Turkish regime continues to cut off water supply to the city

As the Turkish regime insists on continuing its crime against the residents in Hasaka city through cutting off water supply to them for 25 days, government and civil initiatives have been launched with the aim of securing drinking water for the people in the city to alleviate their suffering.

The civil initiatives reflect the state of solidarity that characterizes the people of Hasaka governorate.

In a statement to the Syrian News Agency (SANA), Director General of the Drinking Water Corporation, Mahmoud al-Oukla, said that the civil initiatives, in addition to government one, contributed to meeting part of the needs of people in Hasaka and integrated with the government efforts implemented in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, represented by the transfer of 3000 m3 of water per day to be put in tanks in the main streets of the city.

Oukla indicated that efforts will continue to re-operate Alouk station through communication with international parties existed in the area legally to put pressure on the Turkish occupation forces to restart it.

People in Hasaka asserted that these initiatives reflect the nobility of the Syrian people, who stood by each other in crises, denouncing the human crime committed by the Turkish occupation against the people through the continued blackmail and using water as a card to put pressure on them.

The people demanded international action to put pressure on the Turkish occupation to stop its mercenaries’ aggression on the power lines that feed Alouk station, especially since that the water cut threatens one million people in Hasaka city and its countryside with thirst.

They asserted that the main solution must be reached to spare the station to keep it working.

Basma Qaddour