By Jamal Adel.
Tripoli, 26 January 2014:
Towns and cities from Sirte to Benghazi could be without water within days after power failures . . .[restrict]in the south have left pumping stations unable to work.
One of the main transmission lines connecting southern power stations to the national grid was severed on Thursday’s armed attack on the Sarir oilfield, leading to severe electricity shortages in the area.
This, as well as disruption to the Sarir power station, had stopped water extractions from the Sarir and Tazerbu basins, fed by the Man Made River (MMR), Head of the MMR technical affairs department Abdisalam Belashaher told the Libya Herald.
A water storage facility at Ajdabiya was now the last source of running water for people in towns from Sirte to Benghazi, Belashaher said. With the current rate of consumption, the MMR authority expected the water there to last three or four days maximum, he added.
Staff from the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) were doing their best to repair the damaged lines and restart the Sarir power station, Belashaher said. [/restrict]
