The water war in the Euphrates Valley… Turkey is pushing to deprive dozens of cities and towns in Syria from electricity and drinking water

The effects of the war that Turkey is waging against Syria does not end. Rather, the Turkish government continues, through the water war against the people, to reduce the flow of the Euphrates River, through its filling of the dams that are built on the river, which negatively affects the population of the Euphrates Basin and Syria as a whole.

Most of the cities of Rojava / northeastern Syria have been experiencing power outages for a while, and this comes within the context of Turkey’s infringement of the shares of Syria and Iraq in the water, which led to depriving the people of drinking water.

The United Nations says that everyone has the right to have access to safe drinking water and that everyone’s supply of water is sufficient and continuous to cover personal and household obligations.

A large number of the people of Jazrt Al-Milagh village in the countryside of Deir Al-Zour, through the Aso news network, called on the concerned authorities to provide drinking water that was cut off from them several months ago.

The Aso News Network correspondent in the countryside of Deir Ezzor said that the people are forced to buy water from the tanks in exorbitant amounts, even though they are only 3 km away from the Euphrates River.

Yahya Al-Nasser, the western countryside water official in Deir Al-Zour, told the Aso news network that the reason for the lack of water is due to the frequent power cuts, which causes the water stations to stop pumping, adding that the lack of diesel also contributes to stopping the work of the stations.

While diesel is supplied to the eastern countryside water plants, because there is no electricity, and they only connected for several days.

“Al-Nasser” states that abuses by the people as a result of using drinking water for cultivation also caused a great number of people to be deprived of their right to obtain drinking water.
War with water resources is a crime against humanity.

Mahmoud Al-Issa, an employee of the Electricity Company, told Aso News that the reason for the blackout is due to Turkey’s reduction of the quantities of water entering Syria via the Euphrates River, and this is in violation of all international laws, which caused the reduction of generating capacity in the Euphrates Dam, and thus put All regions are in the rationing tables.

In north-eastern Syria, people live in difficult conditions in the hot summer, due to power outages, as well as water, against high temperatures.