Alwaght- water supply to the recently liberated parts of the Syrian Aleppo city was cut off by ISIS terrorist group on Friday.
The water came from two pumping stations on the Euphrates River. The terrorists have recently used water supplies to increase pressure on Syrian people.
The blockade prompted Aleppo’s Water Organization, Syria’s Red Crescent Society, and local residents to look for ways to restore the water supply to the city.
In a previous incident, terrorists contaminated water supplies to the capital, Damascus apparently to hinder recent advancements by Syrian army in recent months.
On Thursday, the United Nations warned that four million people in the Syrian capital city of Damascus had been deprived of safe drinking water supplies for over a week after springs outside the city were deliberately contaminated by militants.
Water supplies from the Wadi Barada and Ain al-Fija springs to the northwest of Damascus, which served 70 percent of the population in the city, were cut after water facilities were deliberately targeted and damaged, the UN announced in a statement.
According to the UN, 15 million people across Syria are in need of help to access water and households spend nearly a quarter of their income on water.
Over the past almost six years, Syria has been fighting foreign-sponsored militancy. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated in August that more than 400,000 people had been killed in the Syrian crisis until then. The UN has stopped its official casualty count in Syria, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.
