The Water Offices of North and South Lebanon announced on Friday a rationing of the distribution of water in the regions for which they are responsible, due to an insufficient stock of fuel oil needed to supply their infrastructure. Already Thursday evening , the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Authority announced a more severe rationing of water distribution in its territory.
“We inform the citizens that we must unfortunately declare a state of extreme emergency and implement rationing programs for the distribution of water in residential areas in the northern and Akkar mohafazats”, announced the Office des Eaux du Liban-Nord in a press release. The independent Office spoke of “the financial and economic conditions that the country is going through and the repercussions on its work of the rise in the prices of goods and petroleum products”. She also deplored “the rationing of electric current and the shortages of fuel oil”.
In the South, the administration raised the same reasons, namely the fact that all its installations are now without power and the stock of fuel oil is insufficient to supply its generators. These reserves, adds the Office, “will only suffice for a very short period, after which all installations and stations will be shut down.”
The Office in the Békaa announced that its pumping stations were shut down following the stoppage of current distribution by Electricité de Zahlé (EDZ).
Fuel oil, in chronic shortage for weeks, for lack of credit release by the Bank of Lebanon, is necessary to operate the private generators supplying the pumps, during dozens of hours of power cut normally provided by Electricité du Liban. The problem does not appear to be ready to be resolved, with tankers still not unloading their fuel cargoes due to a delay in payment approval procedures. And the production of current by the State, already sharply reduced in recent months, has slowed further since this morning with the total shutdown of the Deir Ammar and Zahrani plants.
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The Water Offices of North and South Lebanon announced on Friday a rationing of water distribution in the regions for which they are responsible, due to an insufficient stock of fuel oil needed to supply their infrastructure. Already Thursday evening, the Office of Water of Beirut and Mount Lebanon had announced a more severe rationing of the distribution of water on its …
