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I put in your hand my first Ambassador report , and I choose to write about Water Crisis in Yemen to show you how we are suffering to get a pure and clean water to drink , wash and for our farms too , I hope you will enjoy reading it and add your comments and ideas :
Many parts of Yemen Suffering from acute crisis of drinking water, agriculture and other uses, this gets at a time when the Yemenis do not rely so much on wells that dried up many of them .
The water crisis in many parts of Yemen haunt adults also haunted by the young, the young who bear the major burden brought in from the dams and the remaining wells .
Yemen is one of the countries where there are no rivers and depends entirely on the adoption of groundwater and rainwater, in the first place The amount of rain in the central region 400-1100 millimeters coastal areas not exceeding 100 millimeters per year.
The country depends almost entirely on about 45 thousand wells run out of water quickly.
The estimated "strategic vision for Yemen until 2025," recently issued by the Ministry of Planning and Development, water reserves underground available in all basins including nearly 20 billion cubic meters, according to the current rate of consumption, Yemen will exhaust about 12.02 billion cubic meters until the year 2010, which what leads to that the stock will not be enough only for a few years.
The recent report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO said that the average per capita in Yemen of renewable water is about 125 cubic meters per year only, noting that this share represents only 10% of what the person obtains in the Middle East and North Africa, amounting to 1250 cubic meters, while the global average per capita share of 7500 cubic meters of water.
The study added that Yemen is among the poorest 10 countries in the world on the issue of water, and that the area of land that can be cultivated in Yemen is estimated at 3.6 million hectares, or about 6.5% of the area of Yemen, but he was due to acute shortage of water, the total cultivated area in Yemen does not exceed 1.6 million hectares, or about 2.9% of the total area of Yemen.
The report said that the water problem in Yemen the most dangerous of disasters that threaten the country being one of the most important causes of poverty for the deprivation caused by huge numbers of labor force participation in the agricultural sector, which is the basic craft of the Yemeni society.
Despite the monsoon rains which caused flooding in some areas of Yemen sometimes World Bank classifies the country as one of the poorest countries in the world in terms of water resources.
And from my point of view The most important problems leading to the water crisis in Yemen:
• Depletion of water resources as a result of the expansion in the cultivation of Qat, and Qat is one of the crops that need large amounts of water for irrigation, has expanded the cultivation of Qat are mean large, which led to the depletion of groundwater has experts said that up to more than 60% of the water consumed in the Yemen used to irrigate Qat crop.
( Qat is a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Among communities from these areas, Qat chewing has a history as a social custom dating back thousands of years in Yemen and some African countries)
• Random drilling of groundwater.
• The lack of a clear water policy.
• Waste and Excessive use of water, whether in the agricultural, domestic or household or other uses.
• The limited number of dams and barriers percent deployed across Yemen, which play a vital and important role in groundwater recharge.
Finally as you see in the attached photos of this report , this is only in Yemen , whether in cities or villages, this is how millions of Yemenis secure their day?s supply of water. Because Access to water in Yemen is far lower than in the rest of the region .
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16 Comments
@Christy Lee :
Yes Yemen started 3 years ago to build a mega water desalination station in Moca Port in Taiz City to cater needs of water in Taiz but due to the situation and Up-Raising Revolution in Yemen in 2011 the project stopped and hopefully they will continue and finish it in the coming year .
Posted 28-09-2014 10:22
Dear Dharmendra : great addition of information about water crises in Yemen , and as you said Sana and Taiz city are the most cities have water problems .
I agree with you we must have immediate consideration of modern water technologies, including trials of drip irrigation for qat, more efficient rainwater harvesting, water meters, and domestic advice to all concerned households about water conservation measures including half-flush toilet technologies and the effective re-use of waste water.
Posted 28-09-2014 10:17
Dear Sabian and Dear UDEH CHIAGOZIE : thanks a lot guys for your words and I hope this and coming reports be helpful and beneficial .
the sources of water in Yemen are :
1 rain as the main source of water.
2 underground water.
3 Water barriers and dams.
The government doing the following projects and activities :
1- Water Strategy and Law 1998 .
2- National Wastewater Strategy 1999 .
3- National Watershed Management Policy 2000 .
4- Land and Water Conservation Project .
5- Sustainable Natural Resources Management Program .
and other projects includes clean water projects in villages , dams and barriers .
Posted 28-09-2014 10:15
Dear Konstantinos : thanks for passing through my report , and Yes as you said the desalination of water is one of the best solution for this , but due you to the high cost of such projects and that the coastal areal of Yemen is covering only 30% of the area and population , so that our government think it is not sufficient and not willing to do it .
Posted 28-09-2014 10:02
@Sadam, Thank you so much for the informative article. The water problem in Yemen coins diplomatic problem with Qat also. Is Yemen considering mega water desalination system to cater needs of water like other Middle east countries?
Posted 19-09-2014 10:50
@Dharmendra, Oh I knew that the city Sana is really beautiful and well known for the green environment(comparatively with other Middle east regions). Thank you for letting us know that there's severe water scarcity.
Posted 19-09-2014 10:47
Yemen is one of the most water scarce countries in the world. In Sana'a, residents usually receive public water once every nine days, while in Taiz they receive it every 45 days. Even some residents receive none and live on water they buy locally from wells outside cities.The committee must be empowered to seek international advice and funding to quickly direct policies, strategies, advice, activities and laws to start a sea change for Yemen??s water management.
I suggest the immediate consideration of modern water technologies, including trials of drip irrigation for qat, more efficient rainwater harvesting, water meters, and domestic advice to all concerned households about water conservation measures including half-flush toilet technologies and the effective re-use of waste water.
Congrats on your first report Sadam :)
Posted 18-09-2014 15:16
Congrats Sadam on your first report, it turned out to be a great debut report.
Yemen is country I admire majorly owing to it architectural structures but I never knew of this water crisis in Yemen.
It makes me feel bad that here in Nigeria,we have more than enough water during the raining season and still do,in some areas,during the dry season.
Your reports reminds me of how careful we should be with what we have as not all has it.
It pains me to learn that Agriculture which appears to be the mainstay of your economy is hampered by this development and knowing that is difficult for your people to get their water is very saddening.
I hope the Yemeni government is doing something in trying to solve the problem? Just keep on doing the best you can and I hope it will be better someday.
Great report!
Posted 18-09-2014 14:25
Firstly, Really great report Sadam.
As it being the first ambassador report, the quality of your report is highly appreciable.
And thank you for sharing the drinking water situation in Yemen. It is really sad to know that women and young children spent most of their time in managing water. Sadam can you please write to me, what are the sources of water in Yemen and the initiation taken by government to solve it?
Posted 18-09-2014 09:01
As I can see Yemen is a very beautiful country, although it has all these water problems.
Really nice first report Sadam Aadwar!! Thanks for sharing!
Do you think that desalination would be an effective solution to the water problem of Yemen (since it is in contact with all that sea)?
Posted 18-09-2014 03:57
@Arushi Madan : Thanks for your time and comments that made the report valuable even just for you guys to know that Yemen has a real problems not only what media shows .
Yah in Yemen and Villages children and women leave their schools and education to go and fetch water daily and sometimes twice a day.
Posted 18-09-2014 03:32
@Rohan Kapur : Thanks dear , the report became valuable due to your comments and your time reading it .
the big problem in water crises in Yemen is not the wastage of it , but the difficulty to find it especially in Villages and mountains , therefore people start drinking water that collected by them from dams and wells which is not clean and can case a health crisis as well.
Here we should do our best to make a wake up call to the government to do its rule for such villages and ruler areas of yemen and provide them with a clean water at the same time to rise awareness of people to control the wastage .
Posted 18-09-2014 03:29
@Unmesh Datta : thanks dear for passing through my report , and I am really sad that media just utilizing and mentioning Yemen only for the problems and news related to terrorism , while it is also not the real news , we all knew that media is a big game in the hand of politician to achieve their goals and interest .
Water in Yemen is one of the big issues we are facing as an Individual specially in Villages, Hopefully the authorities will do something toward this crises .
Posted 18-09-2014 03:24
I am really glad to learn some burning issues of yemen...From newspapers, we come across only all news related to terrorism from yemen...Now we can get some real ground issues from your reports...yes water crisis is a very common issue for a country like yours and we all should act very cautiously ...thx for the report..will look forward for the next one!!
Posted 18-09-2014 02:23
Congrtas on your first report Sadam. Water crisis in Yemen is really acute. I' sure & hopeful that authorities will find out measures to tackle this.
I believe at personal level we can check the water consumption at household level in Villages & cities.
Use clean water wisely & control the wastage.
Posted 18-09-2014 01:07
Thanks for highlighting such a distressing water situation in Yemen. Water seems to be the chronic problem there. I heard people have to spare time out of their studies and work to go to communal fountain to fetch water daily. Hope govt takes measures to improve water access in Yemen on urgent basis.
Posted 17-09-2014 21:32