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WORLD BANK / LEBANON WATER PROJECT
STORY: WORLD BANK / LEBANON WATER PROJECT
TRT: 2:10
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH.
DATELINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC / FILE
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN – LEBANON
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30 SEPTEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Junaid Ahmad, Senior Director for Water, World Bank Group:
“Lebanon is a country which has one of the highest availability of water per capita and yet citizens and business will only receive intermittent water, three hours a day, and that is a huge cost to poor people who have to pay higher costs of water from water takers. It’s a cost to businesses that get interrupted water supply. This project will deliver at its scale and impact water to forty percent of the country of which 28 percent really are the low-income community, so it is a huge program. In addition you may know that Lebanon has opened its door to Syrians who have been displaced from their own county and Lebanon is accepting them. So this project will also build the resilience of the country to be able to deliver services to its citizens and allow its citizens to continue to have services while is actually offers services to other citizens from around the world.”
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30 SEPTEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Junaid Ahmad, Senior Director for Water, World Bank Group:
“The investment is in a hydraulic infrastructure to actually create storage for water. Storage is needed because there is variability across the season; sometimes there is water aplenty sometimes there are water shortages. You want to really have storage so that water is available through the year and in addition, there is just a demand for water and there is a shortage of water and a shortage of water. You can have the best facilities working as efficiently as possible, yet is there is not enough water you cannot deliver services to poor people, and to the community in general. So this is about creating water storage and water transfer so that utilities will be able to deliver services both to businesses and more importantly to communities.”
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Despite having one of the region’s largest amounts of fresh water, in many households in Lebanon water is running for only a few hours a day.
Nearly 30 percent of project beneficiaries are poor and live on less than US$4 a day. Those include Syrian refugees who have fled into Lebanon from neighboring Syria.
Today, the World Bank Group has announced a massive project that will get running water to over 1.6 million people living across the greater Beirut and Mount Lebanon area.
Junaid Ahmad, World Bank’s Senior Director for Water said that the project will “deliver water to about 40 percent of the population of Lebanon out of which 28% are the low income community”.
Lebanon’s climate and geography cause significant variations in water availability, with floods common in the winter, followed by droughts in the summer. This has historically required water to be stored during the winter for use in the summer.
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