The suffering of civilians in Hasaka is exacerbated by the Turkish regime’s theft of the Euphrates water
The suffering of the people of the governorate of Hasakah continues due to the almost complete power outage for the eighteenth day in a row as a result of the Turkish regime blocking the water of the Euphrates River and depriving Syria of its legal share of the river’s water.
The Director of the General Electricity Company of Hasakah, Engineer Anwar Akla, said: “The violations of the Turkish occupation still exist and there has been no change in the improvement of the water level of the Euphrates Dam and the situation is getting worse.”
Akla said that the electricity coming from the dam is less than 15 megabytes per day, that is, an average of one hour of electricity daily for the 18th consecutive day.
Akla said that the electricity power is distributed to the neighborhoods in the city of Hasaka at a rate of one hour for each neighborhood.
For his part, expert in water resources affairs, Aziz Mikhail, said that the Turkish occupier’s continued seizure of the quantities of water coming into the Euphrates River threatens major environmental and economic disasters for the region.
In the context of the continuous violations against the people of Hasaka, the occupier is manipulating the water pumping station of the Alouk Wells project in the eastern Ras al-Ain countryside, which negatively affected the delay in the water that is pumped towards the neighborhoods of the city.
The Director general of the Hasaka Water Corporation, Eng. Mahmoud Al-Okla, indicates that the time for pumping water and filling the main tanks in the Alouk project and in Al-Hama is directly related to the number of pumps operating within the project.
During the past years, the Turkish occupier caused the drying up of the Khabur River by diverting the course of its tributaries coming from Turkey, “Tell Halaf, Al-Zarkan and Al-Jarjab,”.
Large agricultural lands have dried up on the Euphrates, which is witnessing a significant decline in its level due to Turkey’s theft of the Syrian share of the river’s water.
O. al-Mohammad