Hi everybody .. Greeting from Yemen  ^_^

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 .

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 .