麻豆社

The autonomous northeast region of Syria, once regarded as one of the most fertile areas in the country, is today struggling to find enough water to survive. More than a million people in Hasakah have been left with almost no drinking water, and what little water they have has to be brought in by tanker.

麻豆社 Eye goes to Hasakah to investigate what lies behind this crisis. Namak Khoshnaw hears how, following Turkey鈥檚 incursion into the region in 2019, a critical water station is barely functioning, and Turkey has bombed the power station that supplies it along with other infrastructure. Namak talks to local people about their daily struggle to survive and to the engineers and local officials desperately racing against time to find new sources of drinking water.

Presenter: Namak Khoshnaw
Producer: Rob Wilson
Editor: Rebecca Henschke

(Image: Composite image of women, waterpumps and dry, arid landscape)