June 22, 2022/ Socotra Online
Reporting and Photography: Editorial Team
The engineering team of the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation inaugurated the new expansion of the Dexam Water Project in Socotra Governorate.
Where the phase targeted the delivery of water to the areas of Raqbana and Qubeitan, west of Daxum, through pipes extending 17 km in length from the well of Wadi Sarhan.
At the opening of the project, the Acting Head of the Local Command of the Socotra Transitional Council, and Brigadier General/ Ali Al-Dexami, Director General of Police, praised the efforts of the brothers in the UAE for their continuous support to develop service sectors, including the water sector, especially in the Dexam areas, which have long suffered from the problem of water scarcity. Al-Dexami expressed his thanks and appreciation to the United Arab Emirates and its humanitarian institutions for their humanitarian and development work that contributed to alleviating the suffering of the people in Dexam and the island in general.
For his part, Salem Daheq, Vice-Chairman of the Development Committee, said that delivering water to the Raqbana area is important in maintaining community stability in it, after the residents decided to move out of it due to the water scarcity they suffer, which compounds their suffering.
Daheq indicated that the inauguration of the project and the arrival of water to the area today removed a large and accumulated worry for the people and brought them back smile, happiness and permanent stability.
While the identifier of the Dexam area, Yahya Badbeh, indicated that the opening of this new expansion of the Dexam water project is a return to hope for the residents and people of the Raqbaneh area, as well as the Quqbeitan area, to overcome the biggest dilemma they faced throughout their lives.
Pointing out that the Dexam area is one of the beautiful environmental and tourist areas that did not receive its right of attention and care in the past, with the presence of the UAE with its humanitarian and development activities, which obtained service, development and vital projects, including the water project, which is the largest project at the level of the archipelago.
Badbeh added that the Khalifa Foundation has provided the region during the past periods with 3,812 water tankers through large tanks, which played a major role in preventing the displacement of people from their areas.
The first phase was inaugurated in December 2021. The project includes two water wells dug in Wadi Sarhan, a 27-horsepower submersible, and 3 water tanks that were established in different places to distribute water to 20 villages suffering from water scarcity through a network of pipes extending thousands of meters. The opening of the second phase of the project in the first week of June, and it consists of a new well in Wadi Zarej, two separate reservoirs, and a large pipeline network to pump water to the project’s 9 target areas west of Dexam. Harvesting rainwater in underground tanks, and their suffering intensifies in the event of the delay in rain and the exhaustion of the stored quantity.
