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| Damascus water supply cut after rebels pollute it |
| 2016-12-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Damascus water authority has been forced to cut supplies coming into the Syrian capital for a few days and use reserves instead after rebels polluted the water with diesel, it said on Friday. The al-Fija spring which supplies Damascus with water is in the rebel-held Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border. The government controls much of the surrounding territory and on Friday carried out aerial attacks and shelled the rebel-held area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A military news outlet run by Syrian government ally Hezbollah said the rebels in the Wadi Barada valley had refused to leave the area and as a result the Syrian Arab Army began an offensive against them on Friday morning. Through a series of so-called settlement agreements and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition around the capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 to your room! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-24 16:45 |
| #9 It's more basic than that... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-12-24 15:16 |
| #8 The acidic reign may be over, Ship. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-12-24 13:29 |
| #7 I remember... the Animas! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-12-24 12:44 |
| #6 The perps would need many tanker trucks if using diesel. However a a gallon of alar Would suffice to contaminate a gillion gallons of water as well as cause the acidic rein. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-12-24 12:15 |
| #5 But they're all in ENGLISH, gorb. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-12-24 11:33 |
| #4 Couldn't happen. We have signs everywhere saying to stay away from the water reservoirs. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-12-24 10:28 |
| #3 This is something the infrastructure folks here have been worried about for years. Lots of steps taken to mitigate potential breaches, but 'there's always a way'. Doesn't take a 'crew' to pull something like this off, either. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-12-24 08:32 |
| #2 Is this a new template for Islamic Terrorists here in the US? I remember the cops at reservoirs in the wake of 9/11. A coordinated dumping of something like diesel at several of the water sources at the same time, or even a "lone wolf" could cause much consternation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-24 07:25 |
| #1 Is that chemical warfare or sabotage, or both? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-24 06:12 |