30 annual victims of 2000 open wells.. Mawyeh suffers from drought, qat and lack of authority
English - Thursday 25 August 2022 الساعة 09:10 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:
A young man died in Mawiyah District of Taiz Governorate, which is under the control of the Houthis, after he fell into an open well at a height of 27 meters.
Local sources said that the young man, Bakr Abdel Wahab Noman, slipped near the well to fall into its depth, and died immediately, in the village of Dhaba Azlat al-Sarr, which is located to the south of Mawiyah District, along parts of the Al-Musaimir district and the city of Karsh.
The open wells in Mawiyah District represent one of the most important threats to the population, as there are approximately 2,000 wells, most of which are open. Many citizens, including women and children, have long died in some wells, when they searched for water because they relied on the manual method of fetching it.
Adnan Ibrahim Muhammad, one of the residents of the area, considered that these wells still represent a great danger. Adnan said: "In Mawiyah, farmers and qat owners dig wells, but they leave them open, and with the passage of time these wells become a threat to everyone who approaches them, as It leads to the death of many citizens, especially women and children, when they try to get water."
Victims increase
The wells extending in many areas and isolated areas of the Mawiyah District, left many victims, whose lives ended in those wells dug deep, some of which reach 100 meters deep and are manually dug.
The process of digging wells is expanding in Mawiya, after the widespread spread of the qat tree in it, as well as the drought that suffers from several regions.
Saleh Ali Mahyoub, a resident of Mawiya, said that many women and children died in many wells whose survival is open to the population, and such risks increase, especially with the state of drought and the strenuous search for water, which is fetched in a simple and laborious way.
"There are no safety factors in the wells scattered in Mawiya, as they may be fenced, but they are not covered with nets, and this makes approaching them a kind of danger, as approximately 20 to 30 victims fall into these wells annually, and most of them are women and children," Saleh said.
