Residents of AlShebak grapples with limited access to water and the burden of expensive basic necessities
Residents in the Al-Shabak area in Al-Muftah District - Hajjah Governorate need large sums of money to obtain their drinking water needs. There are no surface water wells in the mountainous Shebak area, and residents rely mainly on trucks transporting water from Wadi Hawsan through a very rugged road.
The price of water in the Al-Shabak area is considered the highest in Al-Muftah District, where the price of a water truck (12 cubic meters) reaches 60 thousand riyals.
Citizen Nasser Muhammad Al-Houti confirmed that he and his family consume about 7 units of water per month (7 cubic meters) and pay approximately 40-50 thousand riyals, which is a large sum of monoey that is difficult for him to afford.
Al-Shabak area was one of the areas in which the National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian response (NFDHR) intervened as part of an integrated project in FSA, WASH, Health and Nutrition in Kaaidna and FSA and WASH in AlMoftah districts in Hajjah Governorate, funded by the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF), where it established a concrete collective water tank with a capacity of 50 cubic meters and two pumping and drainage networks with a length of 4,212 meters, in addition to... It supplied and installed a solar pumping system with a capacity of 39 kw, and installed 34 Water distribution points to distribute water to beneficiaries in 5 villages. It also trained a community committee to manage, operate and keep maintenance of the project.
1,882 beneficiaries benefit from the Al-Shebbak water project in the villages of Al-Shebbak, Al-Qalaa, Al-Manfa, Al-Masawah, and Beit Al-Anab.The head of the community committee for the Al-Shabak project, Muhammad Nasser Al-Houti, said: “The project will provide drinking water to citizens at low prices. All residents will be able to obtain their needs of pure drinking water throughout the month.”
Residents in the villages of Al-Shabak Isolation will no longer have to buy drinking water from water trucks at low prices. Water distribution points are now close to their homes, and they can connect a network to the inside of their homes for large amounts, and they will get their needs of pure drinking water at very low prices.
