South Darfur displaced of 4 sites complain about ‘water crisis’

Residents of four camps in South Darfur’s Marshang are discontent about their inability to access drinking water as the available pumps have stopped working calling it a “water crisis”. A local source told Radio Dabanga “thousands of displaced” of the Tom Kitir, Hashaba, Solow and Taiga are currently relying on only four water pumps.   “The problem follows the withdrawal of UNICEF that was operating the pumps. The World Vision organization was responsible for taking over the task”, a displaced said. He stressed the circumstances are forcing displaced to walk long distances on a daily basis to fetch water. The situation will worsen in the summer, he added.   Separately, the population of the four Marshang camps has been waiting for up to nine months to receive their “reduced” corn rations by the World Food Programme (WFP). The displaced appealed to humanitarian organizations to solve the water problem and to the WFP to “review its policies” and provide food to the displaced who are living “in dire conditions”.Radio Dabanga file photo