The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns of the devastating consequences of the disappearing of potable water in the Lebanese territories.
The organization stresses that catastrophe is one of the fallouts of the economic crisis that has still threatened Lebanon for years as the politicians couldn't form a new government due to the odds between the Lebanese President Michel Aoun and the designated Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
The UNICEF issued a statement today, Friday, said that four million people in Lebanon, among them one million refugees, face the danger of disappearing potable water.
The statement warns that the macabre danger coincides with the rapid worsening of the economic crisis and lack of finances and fuel along with basic supplies such as spare parts and chlorine for water plants.
The UNICEF revealed that most of the water plants in Lebanon are about to stop gradually across the country within four or six weeks to come.
Yuki Muko, the local representative of the UNICEF in Lebanon, said that the water sector was exposed to ransacking as a result of the current economic crisis that Lebanon is getting through.
Muko added that the caretaker government is not able to pay for maintenance of the water plants in paid in hard currencies in addition to the collapse of the national power grid and the rocketing cost of fuel in Lebanon.
She went on to say that difficulties of getting freshwater may compel the Lebanese households to take dire decisions to get their supplies of freshwater, sewage, and cleaning.
The UN organization estimated that collapsing of water supplies will double the cost of freshwater by at least 200% monthly.
This cost may rise to 263% of the average monthly income of the poor families in Lebanon.
According to the UNICEF'S figures in May and June this year, 71 % of people in Lebanon are very poor and live in critical conditions.
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