News - Yemen: The Director-General of the Local Corporation for Water and Sanitation in the Capital, Mohammed Al-Shami, confirmed, Tuesday, that the Yemeni people are witnessing the worst water scarcity crisis in seven years due to the siege of the US-Saudi  aggression on fuel ship. Al-Shami explained that the Corporation is now unable to provide the minimum level of its services during the coming period due to the intensification of the fuel crisis.

He pointed out that the establishment's periodic pumping of water has reached dangerous limits, and our ability to supply water to the people does not exceed twice a month, stressing that the low pumping at a rate of twice a month is dangerous and does not suffice the citizens' need for water. He noted that the corporation needs from 500 to 600 thousand liters of diesel per month to feed the water supply to the residents of the capital, at least three times per month. Al-Shami indicated that a number of the corporation's groundwater wells were out of service due to the lack of fuel ship.

The Yemen Petroleum Company confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression continues to piracy operations of fuel tankers. A fuel crisis afflicts all Yemeni governorates, as a result of the practices and procedures of the Saudi-Emirati coalition and the pro-aggression government.The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.

Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.

The coalition’s detention of dozens of fuel ships during more than a year and a half, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite being subject to inspection in accordance with the approved UN inspection and verification mechanism, and having obtained all the necessary permits from the UN inspection mission, caused a suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates. under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.

The fuel stations announced that their stocks of oil had run out. Hundreds of vehicles stood in long queues in front of these stations, hoping that shipments of oil would arrive in the coming days. Meanwhile, representatives of commercial power stations told subscribers in several neighborhoods of the capital, Sana'a, that these stations will have to cut off the power for hours during the day and night, as a result of the lack of diesel running these stations.