Water scarce in Chad camp for Sudanese refugees

04/04/2014 16:35

The Sudanese refugees living in camp Farchana in eastern Chad have complained of a lack of drinking water. Mohamed Daffala, the head of the camp, told Radio Dabanga that the refugees have been suffering from an acute scarcity of drinking water for a period of two weeks. “We have to fetch water from traditional wells located at a distance far from the camp, where the water is unsafe for drinking.” The organisation in charge of water at the camp told Dafalla that the reason for the scarcity is that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reduced the fuel allocated for water by 50 percent. He demanded the UNHCR to speed up the solution the problem. File photo: Women and children carrying buckets of water in Farchana camp, eastern Chad (Zalmaï / UNHCR)Related: ‘Deteriorating food rations for Sudan’s refugees’: Chad camps (7 February 2014)

The Sudanese refugees living in camp Farchana in eastern Chad have complained of a lack of drinking water.

Mohamed Daffala, the head of the camp, told Radio Dabanga that the refugees have been suffering from an acute scarcity of drinking water for a period of two weeks. “We have to fetch water from traditional wells located at a distance far from the camp, where the water is unsafe for drinking.”

The organisation in charge of water at the camp told Dafalla that the reason for the scarcity is that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reduced the fuel allocated for water by 50 percent. He demanded the UNHCR to speed up the solution the problem.

File photo: Women and children carrying buckets of water in Farchana camp, eastern Chad (Zalmaï / UNHCR)

Related: ‘Deteriorating food rations for Sudan’s refugees’: Chad camps (7 February 2014)