Reaching one-fifth of AlHol camp residents with safe drinking water.
UNICEF installed a reverse osmosis water treatment station and finalizing the construction of other two to reach people with safe drinking water in Alhol remote displacement camp, northeast Syria.
Some 58,000 people continue to take shelter in Alhol remote displacement camp, northeast Syria. Most of them are children and women having to survive in dire conditions. UNICEF continues to support them with the daily trucking of safe drinking water, reaching about one-fifth of the camp residents with thanks to a generous support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Denmark. UNICEF has also installed more than 650 communal water tanks for drinking and domestic water use that are properly cleaned quarterly.
UNICEF regularly tests water in the camp ensuring its safety. To support the continued availability of drinking water in Alhol, with a generous support from the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), in June this year, UNICEF installed a reverse osmosis water treatment station in the camp, producing 200 m3 daily to cover the needs of 8,000 people and is finalizing the construction of two additional reverse osmosis units, intending to reach additional 16,000 people with safe drinking water.
