Millions of Lebanese risk losing access to safe water: UNICEF
Al Jazeera
UNICEF estimates that most water pumping will gradually cease across Lebanon in the next four to six weeks.
The United Nations has warned that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees, risk losing access to safe water as shortages of funding, fuel and supplies affect water pumping. “UNICEF estimates that most water pumping will gradually cease across the country in the next four to six weeks,” a statement by the UN body said on Friday. Lebanon is battling an economic meltdown that has propelled more than half of its population into poverty and seen its currency lose more than 90 percent of its value in less than two years.
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