In Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, groups of women and children gather at public fountains in town squares every morning. They fill plastic canisters with water, then transport them home on pushcarts. The fountains are currently the only source of potable water for most residents of Sana’a, where only 20 percent of households receive piped water. The city, perched in the mountains in Yemen’s west, is among the areas worst affected by a water shortage that plagues the entire country. Sana’a’s water table stood at just 30 metres below the ground in the 1970s; today, it has dropped to almost 1,200 metres in some areas, and the streams and aquifers feeding the city continue to dry up. Now online, Matilde Gattonis photo essay on Yemen, a country on the brink of a water crisis.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:03:50 +0000
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