(5 Apr 2017) More than two months after eastern Mosul was retaken from the Islamic State group, the city's residents still have almost no access to piped water.
UN officials are calling the shortage of water the biggest humanitarian need in the city.
Most of the water treatment plants have been damaged in the fighting and there is extensive damage to the pipe network as well.
Efforts are underway to fix the system but all the equipment has to be imported from abroad as some of the treatment plants in the country are in an area that is still not entirely safe.
There is some water in some of the plants in the area, although it is not suitable for drinking it is okay for household use. To get access to it though residents have to queue for hours to fill a few jerrycans that would last their family for a day.
In addition to that, UN agencies are trucking in 2.3 million litres of water a day in tankers but they only reach about half of the eastern side.
New wells are also being dug but the water found there is usually oily and the residents have to boil it first and then remove the layer of oil to be able to use it, as local resident Abu Mustafa Salam explained.
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