The suffering of civilians in Hasaka is exacerbated by the Turkish regime's theft of the Euphrates water

Al-Hasakah-Sana

The suffering of the people of Hasaka governorate continues due to the almost complete power outage for the eighteenth day in a row as a result of the Turkish regime blocking the water of the Euphrates River on Turkish territory and depriving Syria of its legal share of the river's water, which caused a sharp drop in the water level and thus stopped the turbines of generating electricity in the Euphrates Dam. about job.

High temperatures at this time of the year, power outages most of the time, and the repeated threats by terrorist organizations supported by the Turkish occupation forces to cut drinking water from the Alouk station have all put civilians in those areas in horrific conditions and threaten normal life and the natural environment with unprecedented disasters.

The director of the General Electricity Company of Hasaka, Eng. Anwar Akla, confirms in a statement to SANA's correspondent that “the violations of the Turkish occupation still exist and there has been no change in the improvement of the reality of the water level of the Euphrates Dam and the situation is getting worse and the amount of electricity coming from the dam is less than 15 megabytes per day, that is, an average of one hour of electricity Daily for the 18th consecutive day.

Okla shows that the small amount received is distributed to neighborhoods in the city of Hasaka at a rate of one hour for each neighborhood, and then the power is cut off permanently from the governorate at 12 pm, so that the governorate lives in complete darkness in light of a great rise in temperatures at night, indicating that the company is currently feeding the lines The service, including water, communications, furnaces, hospitals, and mills, from the amount of energy produced in the Sweidiyeh generation facility, which suffers mainly from the lack of gas supplies necessary to operate the generation turbines.

The general manager of the company stated that determining the feeding period for the neighborhoods of the city and the countryside of Hasakah between the hours of 4 in the afternoon until 12 at night is due to the management of dams and not to the General Electricity Company of Hasakah Governorate, and that it is done after taking into account a set of technical reasons related to the water level and the times of flow and collection of water, confirming that the reality of the electric current has improved. Directly related to the improvement of water resources and the cessation of violations by the Turkish occupier.

For his part, expert in water resources affairs, Aziz Mikhail, points out that the Turkish occupier's continued seizure of the quantities of water coming into the Euphrates River threatens major environmental and economic disasters for the region that depends mainly on the river's water for the irrigation of crops, pointing out that the high temperatures and the actual entry of the summer will be It has negative repercussions that increase suffering and expand the area of ​​drought in agricultural lands and in the riverbed.

In the context of the continuous violations against the people of Hasaka, the occupier is manipulating the water pumping station of the Alouk Wells project in the eastern Ras al-Ain countryside, which negatively affected the delay in the water that is pumped towards the neighborhoods of the city.

A number of residents indicated that pumping water from the Alouk Wells project now takes more than 15 days, and this increases the suffering of the people who consume water from household tanks quickly with high temperatures, noting that the majority of the people of Hasaka city resort to the tanks set up by the Red Crescent branch. Syrian Arab to secure drinking water.

The people are calling for international and regional action from all sides and international organizations to stop the violations of the Turkish occupation and neutralize the Alouk station from the current events, especially as it is a main source of drinking water for about one million people.

In a statement to the SANA reporter, the director general of the Hasaka Water Corporation, Eng. Mahmoud Al-Ekla, indicates that the time for pumping water and filling the main tanks in the Alouk project and in Al-Hama is directly related to the number of pumps operating within the project, as the Turkish man controls their number and resorts to operating a pump or two at best, and the normal situation needs between 4 and 5 pumps to pump water daily for the city's neighborhoods, according to the rationing program.

Al-Ikla explains that the foundation divided the city of Hasakah into sectors and pumps water every six days for each one, with the difficulty of determining the date of pumping water because the Turkish occupier is manipulating the number of pumps in order to provide electricity to his mercenaries to illuminate their headquarters.

During the past years, the Turkish occupier caused the drying up of the Khabur River by diverting the course of its tributaries coming from Turkey, “Tal Halaf, Al-Zarkan and Al-Jarjab,” which caused large areas of agricultural lands to be abandoned for investment, especially those located on the river bed from Ras Al-Ain to the city of Al-Busirah in the countryside of Deir Ezzor. What is being repeated today, as large areas of agricultural land have dried up on the Euphrates, which is witnessing a significant decline in its level due to Turkey's theft of the Syrian share of the river’s water.