The Public Works Project works in the water sector according to the water is the basis of life strategy, because access to safe and safe water for domestic use is a priority for the vast majority of Yemenis, especially in remote and remote areas, which live daily suffering in order to obtain some liters of clean water for drinking only and not for domestic use in general, and even provide a small amount of clean water Children and women need to travel long distances under the heat of the sun in order to reach To the nearest source of water, the lack of sources of income, the scarcity of job opportunities and the living conditions of the majority of Yemeni families have made buying water from water tankers at high prices an alternative that many heads of households are unable to provide.

Providing a sustainable source of clean and safe water healthily, a positive impact achieved by the public works project through its interventions in the water sector, each water project implemented is appropriate to the nature and needs of the region, for example, rainwater harvesting tanks are established in remote rural areas that depend on rainwater, ghouls and ponds to provide their water needs, and tower reservoirs and water transmission and distribution networks are in areas where there are water wells, but the transmission and distribution network is dilapidated and there is no Tower tanks to which water is pumped and then distributed to homes and neighborhoods, and thus the public works project succeeded in achieving the highest levels of benefit for the implemented water projects, and alleviating the daily suffering and strenuous and exhausting effort that children and women were exerting daily, in bringing water to the home and at the expense of education.

Economic and social benefit

Providing water sources and easy access to clean drinking water is of great benefit to the beneficiary communities, and the main benefits achieved in this sector are:

• Reduce the effort and time to fetch water, especially for women and children, who are able to go to school and attend classes.
• Improving the level of public health, reducing infectious diseases, improving the environmental situation and public hygiene.
• Achieving significant economic benefits that have been felt by society through savings in the cost of purchasing water tankers, and less medical care.

The ease of fetching water has also resolved conflicts between community members.

Achievement

During the period January-December 2023, 13 projects were completed in the water sector at a total cost of $ 1 million, benefiting about 70,000 people, and 1,000 temporary jobs were created for a month-long worker.

Table ( 5) lists the completed projects in the water sector during the period January-December 2023 cumulatively.

Hamda Omran and Socotra residents get water in times of drought

The same suffering is shared by people in the Hamda-Raydah area in Amran Governorate, and Abtara we find in Socotra Governorate, the people there depend on water tankers, or animals, women and children to provide domestic water and water livestock, which are financially expensive and burdensome sources for women and children, which is a summary of the results of the two studies of field researchers affiliated with the Public Works Project to the two regions with the aim of determining the priority needs of the projects, so the rainwater harvesting tank project was the priority for the beneficiaries in Abtara in Socotra and Hamda Reda Imran.

Water is available all year round

Providing domestic water through water tankers under difficult living conditions is an option that most Yemeni families cannot afford.
Another alternative is for women and children to take on the task of bringing water every day to the house, even if it is exhausting and at the expense of education and other interests.

The intervention of the public works project in the two areas through the implementation of two rainwater harvesting tanks that alleviated the suffering of the people,
As the beneficiaries confirm, as water became available, especially in times of drought, and children were able to go to school, as well as the level of personal hygiene improved, and the number of livestock increased in the two areas.

Women and children in Hotat Lahj and Sukhna in Hodeidah are safe from water pollution diseases

The suffering of families in .... Belhaj and the villages (Al-Masbar, Al-Marada, Al-Maqseen) in Al-Sukhna district in Hodeidah is not the lack of a water source, but on the contrary, water wells are available, but the transmission and distribution networks and tanks are dilapidated or non-existent, and this deprived hundreds of families of access to water despite its availability.

Problem solved

Dozens of women and children in these two areas go daily with their animals to bring water to the house, they are the ones who are responsible for this task, the majority of families live below the poverty line and are unable to afford the expenses of buying water, although government water wells are available, but the dilapidated transmission and distribution networks, as well as the lack of a reservoir that receives water from wells and distributes it to the beneficiary areas are the cause of the suffering of the population, and the implementation of a tower tank project with a water transmission and distribution network It will eliminate the suffering of the population and improve their standard of living, and they will receive safe and safe water for domestic use.

The Public Works Project, as usual, is keen to touch the pain and suffering of people and how it can contribute to alleviating them, so the priority of providing water was at the forefront of the need for families in the areas of ...., Balhaj and Al-Masbar in Hodeidah, in the same suffering.

Zaher Masoud Saad, one of the beneficiaries of the Al-Masbar water project in Al-Sukhna district in Hodeidah Governorate, says that women and children from the morning walked daily as an average of 35 minutes to the nearest water well, and for a limited time, but when a crisis occurs in diesel, the water is cut off for days, and our suffering is severe and our lives are difficult, even livestock are affected.

Masoud adds: "Today, after the implementation of the reservoir project and the distribution line, water has reached many homes, people's standard of living has improved, personal hygiene, diseases that were due to water pollution have disappeared, and there are water distribution points close to everyone.

Disappearance of diseases

Nabil Salah Suleiman, a beneficiary of the water network project, agrees .... Balhaj with what Zaher Masoud put forward from Hodeidah, and confirms that the level of public health in the region has improved a lot compared to the past, and that women have turned to work in sewing, embroidery and other handicrafts, and children have attended their classes.