Cholera Emergency Risks: Dire WASH needs identified in Baalbek-Hermel area

UNSAFE AND CONTAMINATED WATER

Out of 19.806 individuals (53% women, and 54% children) and 3.522 households living in 493 Informal Tent Settlements (ITSs):

• 80 % of households are using unsafe water.
• 16% of households do not have any water storage unit

Along with alarming and dangerous levels of water contamination:

• 70% of existing boreholes are bacteriologically contaminated, considered not safe to drink but still 64% of ITSs rely on them as their primary source of water.
• 79% of the contaminated boreholes are in Qaa area.