QRCS continues to support Yemen’s water sector

Doha, Qatar: The representation office of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Yemen has completed a project to dig boreholes and construct water tank...

Doha, Qatar: The representation office of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Yemen has completed a project to dig boreholes and construct water tanks in the towns of Lawdar and Mudiyah, Abyan Governorate. 

Aimed at securing clean water for 23,200 people, the project had a total cost of $413,115, funded from the giving of benevolent Qatari donors. 

It involved digging four boreholes, installing solar-powered pumping systems, constructing four 27-m3 concrete water storage tanks, building control rooms to manage and operate borehole components, and extending 3,926-meter water supply networks connecting boreholes and tanks.

During the technical procedures to hand the project’s outcomes over to the local communities and competent authorities, Gamal Alala, Director-General of Lawdar, expressed his great happiness with the project. 

He said, “With generous support from QRCS, we are inaugurating Lawdar water well, Shabiba borehole, and two water tanks. These projects ensure the sustainable provision of water for 10 remote villages that have been underserved for decades, and the population had to suffer a lot to get water”.