Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Haneen Al-Duraib, Head of the Rural Water Projects Authority, Adel Saleh Bader, UNICEF Water and Environmental Sanitation Specialist Fouad Aburas inspected water projects implemented by the Authority’s Water Emergency Unit with UNICEF funding in Aslam District, Hajjah province, and Al-Zahra District, Hodeida province.
Al-Duraib, along with the directors of the Water Emergency Unit, Abdul Karim Al-Akhram, the branch of the Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs in Hajjah , Allan Fadail, and the branch of the Rural Water Projects Authority in Hajjah and Al-Hodeida, Saleh Al-Falahi and Ahmed Al-Hadi, were briefed on the project to implement Al-Dhahr water project, which costs $196,000, benefiting 428 families.
They also reviewed the level of implementation of the water delivery project to camps for displaced people and the host community in Al-Hakamiya, which benefits 392 families at a cost of $175,000.
Al-Duraib, Badir and Abu Ras inspected the Damig water projects,
which cost $96,000 , serve 503 families, and the smelter water project, which targets 355 families.
During the visit, the Deputy Minister of Water and Environment pointed out the importance given to water projects by the revolutionary leadership and the Supreme Political Council, as they are sustainable projects that touch the needs of the displaced, the affected, and the citizens, especially in light of the current circumstances.
He praised the integrated roles in implementing projects and the Water Emergency Unit to correct the activities of humanitarian partners in the water sector and the role of the humanitarian partner in this aspect, stressing the necessity of expanding the circle of water projects in the directorates of Hajjah and Al-Hodeida provinces, which lack these projects.
While the Director General of the Water Emergency Unit, Al-Akhram, indicated that the total number of projects currently implemented by the Emergency Unit with the support of UNICEF is nine projects, and five projects were
operated last June at a cost of one million and 328 thousand dollars, benefiting two thousand and 820 families.
Source: Yemen News Agency