AhlulBayt News Agency - Water returned on Friday to pumping stations in Aleppo city, a water services official said, after the longest cut left residents without supplies for three months.
"Water has finally arrived from Al-Hafseh, the main water station east of the city to the pumping stations of Sleiman al-Halabi and Bab Neirab inside the city," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"Without electricity, the water will be pumped using generators with fuel provided by the Red Crescent, and water will gradually return to all parts of the city," he told AFP.
Residents had told AFP this week that they had gone about three months without steady water supply, their longest cut in the five-year war.
Malhis further said that the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), the mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) played an important role to restore water supply.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly insurgency it blames on some foreign states for nearly five years with estimates showing that more than 470,000 people have been killed and millions have been displaced in the Arab country. The militancy has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure.
The country is currently observing an agreement for the cessation of hostilities which entered into force on Saturday and stipulated the cessation of all military hostilities in Syria, except for the operations against the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group and the Syrian al-Qaeda, known as al-Nusra Front.
The agreement was negotiated by Russia and the United States, which support opposing sides in the Syrian conflict.
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