Aleppo suffering three-week ‘water crisis’
Government and rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo have been without safe water for nearly three weeks because the war-torn city's only pumping station is not functioning, residents said Thursday.
The cause of the problem is disputed, with some residents saying a lack of fuel was the issue, but a monitor reporting that the opposition group controlling the facility had shut it down.
"There is a water crisis in the whole city," said Mamun Abu Omar, head of a pro-rebel press agency.
"All our water was from the Euphrates River. The pumps would bring it in, filter it, and it would reach Aleppo's residents," Abu Omar told AFP.
But for the past 20 days, residents have been forced to purchase individual cisterns of unfiltered water.