The first post published on this blog back in April 2011 was about Yemen’s water challenge. These days most news from Yemen focuses on the political crisis, rather than on issues like water. The problem hasn’t gone away, though, and this short report by Noora Faraj of Al Arabiya reminds us that the water crisis is very real and requires urgent attention.
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Interesting and important update. I tried to grep a grip on this particular problem when I spent a year working in Yemen. Someone told me that everyone should move to Hadhramaout, cause that’s where all the groundwater is, but I really don’t know if that’s true or not…
Thanks for the comment! Yes, it’s a big issue and sometimes gets lost amongst the discussions about conflict and politics. Not sure that Hadhramout is a solution, but would be interested to learn more about that.
As I said, I have no idea if that’s a viable solution, but allt possibilites may need to be explored in this case… When I started reading about the water crisis some two years ago it seemed like such a huge issue, that could also likely happen in other places around the world in the future. So, hopefully, Yemen could provide some sort of answers even though it’s a really tough predicament they’re in.
Totally agree. By the way, if you haven’t already heard it you may be interested in a short IRIN podcast about the issue recorded last year: http://is.gd/r8iAGN
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