Water shortages plague Beirut as low rainfall compounds woes

BEIRUT: People are buying water by the truckload in Beirut as the state supply faces its worst shortages in years, with the leaky public sector struggling after record-low rainfall and local wells running dry. “State water used to come every other day, now it’s every three days,” said Rima Al-Sabaa, 50, rinsing dishes carefully in Burj Al-Baranjeh, in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Even when the state water is flowing, she noted, very little trickles into her family’s holding tank.

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