Libyan Water Infrastructure Crisis Is Affecting The World: UN Report

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 Water is no more a free commodity and situation in Libya is proof of this....

The Great Man Made Lake, Libya project went busted in 2011


A recent UN report has stated that the ongoing water conflict due to Libya is further putting pressure elsewhere. An ongoing infrastructural conflict that started with a careless act by NATO has snowballed into a massive water scarcity issue in Libya.

The arid climatic conditions have always deprived the country of water sources though it does have underground water reservoirs. In 2011, the so called NATO Humanitarian act that bombed most of the water facilities created tirelessly under Gadaffi's leadership pushed Libya's water resourced to nill.

NATO's justification was that pipe building plants were actually being used for military stockpiling. But today, the situation hasn't changed and the seemingly humanitarian act as led to an ongoing water war. 

“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water,” says Ismail Serageldin, the founding director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and a former director of the World Bank. 

In its latest report the World Bank has stated some long-term effects of the damage during conflicts on Libya's water infrastructure.

The Bank added in a report entitled “Water in the Shadow of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa” that since 2011 the water infrastructure in Libya has been targeted in conflicts, depriving many citizens of access to water supplies, noting that one out of four migrants in Libya does not have enough drinking water.

“Access to safe drinking water is a daily struggle for millions of forcibly displaced Iraqis, Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemenis, and international migrants in the region, heightening public health risks”, the World Bank noted, adding that water was non-potable in 50% of Libyan municipalities.

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