Residents of Syria’s largest city Aleppo say water has returned to pipes for the first time in two months.
The activist-run Zahra Neighborhood News Network Facebook page reports water pressure in the Hamdaniyeh, Manyan and Salaheddine neighborhoods.
Imad al-Khal, 64, tells The Associated Press on Wednesday it was the first time he’d received municipal water in 67 days.
“People were using well water and getting sick,” says the Aziziyeh neighborhood resident.
Islamic State group militants shut off the city’s main water station on the Euphrates River in January. Government forces recovered the station in Khafseh last week and immediately began working on repairs.
Aleppo was once Syria’s industrial capital, before rebels seized the eastern half of the city in 2012. Government forces regained control of the city in December last year following a punishing military campaign that laid much of the eastern part of the city to waste. The UN condemned the government’s indiscriminate campaign as a war crime.
— AP
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