Special envoy to Saadnayel
In Saadnayel, in the central Bekaa, the inhabitants have been without water for seven months while the temperatures are close to 36-38 degrees.
In the fields, which still dot this city of 50,000 inhabitants (half of them Syrian refugees), the crops have yellowed prematurely.
“A real desolation”
, testifies Moussa Choubassi, 72, returned to the city of his childhood after 30 years in the Netherlands.
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The world facing the specter of water wars
A paradox for a country considered the "water tower of the Middle East" because of its reserves: 2000 springs, 40 rivers and 4.5 billion m3 of renewable water per year.
Syria and Israel, with which Lebanon shares some rivers and which already live under
“extremely high water stress”
according to a 2019 World Resources Institute report, covet its relative abundance.
episodes of drought
But in Lebanon too, certain regions such as the Bekaa, where local life focuses on agriculture and livestock, are already facing episodes…
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