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Sewage flooding in Sursock neighborhood

30 March 2023

The problem of sewage flooding in the Sursock neighborhood in Bar Elias is getting worse and the concerned authorities are absent, until it came to the spread of skin diseases among the people.
The Litani River National Authority had sent letters to each of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, His Excellency the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Judge Bassam Mawlawi, His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Dr. Nasser Yassin, and His Excellency the Minister of Health, Dr. Firas Al-Abyad, in sympathy with the previous series of books on the problem of sewage flooding in The town of Bar Elias is between the residential units and on the roads leading to the Ghazil River, which is considered one of the most important tributaries of the Litani River.

The Authority had taken samples from the drinking water taps in 4 houses in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa, to analyze them and see if they were actually suitable for drinking and use, or if they were contaminated as a result of the aforementioned problem. Concentrations of hundreds of colonies were recorded in every 100 ml of water), bearing in mind that these germs are strictly prohibited from being present in drinking water.

The authority renews its request for the need to find an immediate solution to the sewage problem in the town of Bar Elias, in order to remedy the health and environmental disaster that befell the residents of the Sursock neighborhood in the town, and to reduce losses as much as possible.

Other News

Egypt adopts the installation of sensors to monitor the drainage of industrial facilities

23 January 2024

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Mal's included in its No. 4201, published on the 28th of December 2023, an artical entitled "Head of the Environmental Affairs Agency in Al-Thaghr: Sensors monitor the drains of industrial facilities 24/24" 

The installing sensors strategy on the drains facilities discharging its water to fresh and non-fresh water bodies, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, so that industrial drainage, its quality, and the quality of the water falling on the water body to which it is connected are monitored in a way that it does not cause pollution.

Litani river authority indicates that applying this strategy helps control the sources of pollution of the Litani River’s water to a large extent, as it is possible to adopt this system in institutions that have been obligated by the Litani river authority to install refining stations to treat their industrial waste before diverting it to the course of the Litani River or to one of its tributaries.

 

Why did the lake become green?

04 October 2023

Water is usually affected by several factors that lead to changing its color and smell. In the summer or when the temperature rises, the color of the water in Lake Qaraoun changes to become green. The most prominent reasons that lead to this are:

Climate change and temperature rate:
The climate in general has an effect on the color of the water, as it varies according to temperature, and ranges from blue to green as it rises. Loss of ecosystem health in lake water may also lead to a shift in color.

Cyanobacteria:
Bacteria that live in water, become more active and float to the surface as temperatures rise. Therefore, the green color increases in the summer as a result of the reproduction of these types of bacteria, which are also called “blue-green algae.”

Winter sewer cleaning

21 September 2023

The technical teams at the Litani River National Authority have begun the winter sewer cleaning work that they carry out annually as the precipitation season approaches, in order to avoid rainwater overwhelming public and private property.

 

Sewage station project

19 April 2023

Funded and implemented by the UNDP, the National Authority for the Litani River is pursuing a project to set up a sewage station in the interest's expropriation to treat the sewage of the neighborhoods adjacent to the Qasimia irrigation project to protect irrigation water and food safety.
Sursock - Bar Elias flood

01 April 2023

Exactly a year ago, sewage water overflowed in the Sursock district, located within the town of Bar Elias (Zahle district). A few days ago, the flood recurred, despite the measures announced at the time by the relevant ministries to avoid pollution again. According to the detection reports of the Litani River National Authority teams, the cause of the flood is due to “sanitary excavations and new extensions that were connected to one of the sewage network pipes in the neighborhood. These additions came after the increase in the number of residents within the neighborhood, which doubled the amount of waste water generated by them without the single pipe being able to absorb it. This led to flooding of potholes on the roads and between houses, and extended to the nearby Ghazil River, a tributary of the Litani River.
Télé Liban report on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding

02 March 2023

Télé Liban report on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding sponsored by interest and in cooperation with the World Union for Nature Conservation entitled "Blue Green Economy".
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Replacing the #Aitnit cell

05 February 2023

The maintenance teams at the Abdel-Al plant have completed the works of replacing the #Aitnit cell, which feeds a number of towns, in cooperation with the #Electricity_Lebanon Corporation.
A graph of the water stock in Qaraoun Lake

22 December 2022

A graph of the water stock in #Qaraoun_Lake comparing the water stock in it during the period from 2019 to 2022.
Cleaning the diversionary dam facilities in the Zararia area

24 November 2022

Works of the annual program for cleaning the facilities of the diversionary dam in the Zararia area
Hona Beirut episode 9-11-2022 - with the Director General of the National Authority of the Litani Ri

09 November 2022

Hona Beirut episode 9-11-2022 - with the Director General of the National Authority of the Litani Ri
The current situation of water resources in the Litani River basin

31 October 2022

The pollution problem in the upper basin of the Litani River is still exacerbated by the flow of huge amounts of untreated sewage directly into the riverbed and Qaraoun Lake. In this context, the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority of the Litani River, Dr. Sami Alawiyeh, revealed that in the absence of good management and drawing up a clear directive plan for the sanitation sector, centralized solutions are adopted for sewage treatment systems associated with defects in studies and designs, poor implementation and unsustainable operation. Due to the need for huge sources of energy and the lack of technical and financial capabilities to operate them, in addition to the continued connection of rainwater networks and the transfer of industrial waste to those networks leading to refinery plants. As a result of all this, there was a failure to treat this water, and the lack of validity of the treated water to mix with the water medium, and thus its unsuitability for irrigation, and the absence of periodic monitoring of the quality of the water coming out of it.

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Visiting the Federation of Iqlim Al-Tuffah Municipalities

12 October 2022

The head of the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim al-Tuffah, Hajj Bilal Shehadeh, accompanied by the mayors of Homin al-Fawqa and Jarju`, and a delegation from the town of Arabsalim, visited the Director General of the Authority, Dr. Sami Alawiyeh, in order to emphasize the necessity of observing the rights of the villages and towns of Iqlim al-Tuffah to benefit from the energy produced through the Litani plant, whether through the expansion of medium-voltage stations or transmission via high-voltage lines 66 kV from the Awali station.