Latakia-SANA
In coordination between the Electricity Company in Lattakia Governorate and the Drinking Water Corporation, today the drinking water pumping station in Basnada was connected to electrical outlets exempt from rationing to ensure that it works permanently to meet the needs of the neighborhoods benefiting from it with drinking water.
The director of the Electricity Company, Engineer Jaber Assi Bayn, told SANA reporter that a water pumping station was connected to a pedestal on a special exit that is exempt from rationing, to enable it to work 24 hours a day as part of efforts to solve the water problem in a number of neighborhoods in Lattakia city.
He pointed out that the cost of the project is about 90 million pounds, and it is part of a group of projects that are being worked on in coordination with the Drinking Water Corporation to exempt a group of pumping stations from electrical rationing to improve the water reality, pointing out that there are several other projects that include Al-Ruwaymiyah and Al-Thawra pumps.
For his part, the Director General of the Drinking Water Corporation, Tareq Ismail, indicated to the permanent coordination with the Electricity Company regarding the removal of a number of water pumping stations from the rationing programs, successively, to improve the reality of pumping in cities and rural areas, indicating that the new project includes a number of neighborhoods, including in Sanaa, Dahiyat in Sanaada, Ruwaiseh in Sanaada, Al-Montazah and Al-Hammam. And Al-Datour and part of Jab Hassan and Al-Ghadiriya.
Engineer Ismail explained that about 15,000 subscribers will benefit from the project, which is about 70,000 citizens, pointing out that the project was followed by other benefits, represented in providing the fuel needed to operate pumps on diesel, amounting to about 12,000 liters of diesel per month, and maintenance operations on these groups, as well as the environmental impact of residents. Next to the station to reduce noise and pollution.
Sanada pumping station includes 5 pumping sets, 4 of which are permanently operating and one is a reserve, and it is currently operating at its full capacity with a backup generating set.
Bassam Ibrahim