Funded by UNICEF, 15 water projects at a cost of $1.3 million in Marib opened and launched

On Tuesday, the Deputy Governor of Marib, Dr. Abdul Rabbo Miftah, opened and inaugurated 15 water projects in the city and valley directorates, at a total cost of one million, 317 thousand and 704 dollars, funded by UNICEF.

The operation was inaugurated by the Governor’s Deputy, accompanied by the Director General of the Water and Sanitation Corporation Branch, Hussein bin Jalal, and the Director General of the General Authority for Rural Water Branch, Dr. Ali Hithal, (6) projects affiliated with the Water Corporation Branch and 3 projects affiliated with the Rural Water Branch at a total cost of 689 thousand and 292 dollars, benefiting 299 thousand and 670 beneficiaries from the displaced and the host community.

According to Saba News Agency, the components of the operating water projects included the construction of concrete tower water tanks with different hours, main pumping lines, liquefaction and distribution networks, service points and well drilling, in addition to pumping, guarding and control units and rooms.

Undersecretary Miftah, in the presence of the Water Cluster Coordinator for Humanitarian Organizations in Yemen, Frederic Batje, and the Director of the UNICEF Office in the Governorate, inaugurated the start of work on implementing six other water projects in the city directorate affiliated with the General Corporation for Water and Sanitation, funded by the Office of Humanitarian Assistance at the US Agency for International Development through UNICEF, with a total amount of 628,412 US dollars.

Undersecretary Miftah praised the importance of these sustainable projects, which are considered among the most important basic needs suffered by the displaced and the host community in the desert governorate, which has absorbed more than 62% of the displaced in Yemen and whose population has risen to 3 million people.

He pointed out that these projects will help thousands of displaced families in the camps and the host community to obtain safe and clean water, and will help them improve their health, raise their immunity to resist diseases, and improve their environment.

He appreciated the humanitarian partnership of UNICEF and its humanitarian interventions that help the local authority and its institutions improve their services and respond to the large and increasing humanitarian needs of the governorate’s residents, and alleviate the suffering of the population in light of the humanitarian crisis that citizens are experiencing as a result of the economic collapse, deterioration of living conditions, climate change, and the decline in humanitarian interventions by organizations due to weak funding.

Undersecretary Miftah stressed the need to focus on sustainable humanitarian projects that help recovery and meet part of citizens’ needs, alleviate their suffering, and increase the water sector’s capabilities to expand its coverage to the largest number of beneficiaries.