afrinpost – Exclusive
Yesterday, Saturday, a leader in the Turkish-backed “Faylaq al-Majd” militia expelled the employee in response at “Kela” water station in Bulbul sub-district, and stopped it from working under the pretext that no water reached the village of Zarka-Rajo, which the militia occupies, while a water crisis has returned causing the people in other villages to face lack of safe drinking water and proper sanitation.
In details, our sources reported that the so-called “Abu Al-Walid”, the leader in “Faylaq al-Majd” militia, had expelled the civil employee appointed by the local council of Bulbul, from the water station in the village of Kela and seized it, which led to the station’s suspension work and thus depriving five other villages of drinking water, under the pretext that the village of Zarka is deliberately deprived of water, knowing that the reason is due to the weak power of the electrical generator that operates the pumping station after the same militia stole all the station’s contents earlier.
In the same context, the drinking water crisis has returned to the forefront in Afrin, due to the lack of continuous operation of the water pumps, as well as the dam administration diverting the bulk of the pumping hours to the city of Azaz, which led to depriving neighborhoods of Afrin of drinking water. However, the local council in Afrin city receives a monthly water bill (20 Turkish liras), which is imposed on the people of Afrin exclusively, while the militants and their families are not bound by any bills.
