{"id":181425,"date":"2015-12-20T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/low-rainfall-leaves-wells-depleted-in-mershing-south-darfur\/"},"modified":"2015-12-20T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:20:00","slug":"low-rainfall-leaves-wells-depleted-in-mershing-south-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/low-rainfall-leaves-wells-depleted-in-mershing-south-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Low rainfall leaves wells depleted in Mershing, South Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Abu Hamra villages in Mershing locality, South Darfur, are suffering from a severe shortage of drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Abu Hamra is dependent on the aquifer that feeds the wells,&rdquo; a villager explained to Radio Dabanga. &ldquo;The water is almost depleted because of the poor rainfall this year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We now collect very muddy water from the wells. The smell of the water has changed and it has become unfit for drinking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The villager explained that the people are now forced to fetch water from a well more than three kilometres from Abu Hamra. &ldquo;Long queues have developed near the well. The people leave their village in the&nbsp;Abu Hamra area&nbsp;in the early morning and return in the evening with two jerry cans of water.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He said that technicians from the&nbsp;government&rsquo;s Water and Sanitation Department (WES) have checked the hand pumps, but they also failed from lack of water to prime them.<\/p>\n<p>The source further warned that the people in Abu Hamra may leave the area &ldquo;out of despair&rdquo;, and appealed to the local and state authorities to acknowledge the crisis and seek a solution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They should not forget that Abu Hamra contributes significantly to the production of vegetables that feed the local markets,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abu Hamra villages in Mershing locality, South Darfur, are suffering from a severe shortage of drinking water.<br \/>\n\u201cAbu Hamra is dependent on the aquifer that feeds the wells,\u201d a villager explained to Radio Dabanga. \u201cThe water is almost depleted because of the poor rainfall this year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe now collect very muddy water from the wells. The smell of the water has changed and it has become unfit for drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Low rainfall leaves wells depleted in Mershing, South Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/low-rainfall-leaves-wells-depleted-in-mershing-south-darfur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Low rainfall leaves wells depleted in Mershing, South Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Abu Hamra villages in Mershing locality, South Darfur, are suffering from a severe shortage of drinking water. \u201cAbu Hamra is dependent on the aquifer that feeds the wells,\u201d a villager explained to Radio Dabanga. \u201cThe water is almost depleted because of the poor rainfall this year. \u201cWe now collect very muddy water from the wells. 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