Yekiti Media
Residents of Al-Hasakah have suffered a new blow to their livelihoods, with the price of water tankers rising by 50 per cent in one go, immediately following the Syrian government’s announcement of a price hike for petroleum products (mazut). This has exacerbated the suffering of the city, which has been enduring a chronic shortage of drinking water for years.
A Yekiti Media correspondent in the city reported that the cost of filling five barrels of water has jumped from 50,000 Syrian pounds to 75,000 Syrian pounds, a move justified by the tanker owners as being due to the sudden rise in fuel prices and its direct impact on the costs of transport and water pumping.
These crippling financial burdens come despite the resumption of water pumping from the strategic Alouk station towards Al-Hasakah; residents confirmed that numerous outlying neighbourhoods in the city have not received any water at all to date, not to mention that the current pumping schedule approved by the service departments fails to meet citizens’ minimum daily needs, leaving thousands of families at the mercy of the commercial water tanker market