Deir ez-Zor water station impotent to afford renovation
DIER EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, an official of the Autonomous Administration in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, revealed they cannot afford expenditures to renovate water drinking stations in line with warns of cholera outbreak in east Syria.
This came less than a week of the announcement by Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) that it recorded 2.776 suspected cases of cholera in Deir ez-Zor countryside.
Director of Water Foundation in Municipalities and Service Board of Deir Ez-Zor Civil Council, Ashraf al-Alyan, said that his foundation suffers from lack of finance that impedes its work amid high costs of renovation and low amounts of levy fees.
Warnings of drinking water contamination follow cholera outbreak. Health Board says low levels of the Euphrates River is the main reason behind cholera outbreak.
Al-Alyan told North Press that high costs of renovation made breakdowns stockpiled as the foundation cannot afford USDs.
Besides, levy fees are very low, as participants pay 500 Syrian pounds ($0.11) per month. This does not cover costs of renovation that threatens the water of 70 water stations in Deir ez-Zor, according to al-Alyan.
Last year, a number of water stations in Deir ez-Zor went out of service due to low levels of the Euphrates River as Turkey still reduces Syria’s share of the river.