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Mt. Lebanon farmers demand restoration of irrigation water
BEIRUT: Mount Lebanon farmers demanded immediate solutions to a monthslong cut to their irrigation water supply, state media reported.
“We are only demanding our rights,” Abdo al-Atiq said on behalf of the farmers, who gathered at the farmers union headquarters in Jbeil, north of Beirut.
Irrigation pipelines had been damaged by “workers at a construction site in the [nearby] town of Oqaibeh” in mid-January, Atiq said, according to the National News Agency.
The farmers complained that the lack of water “has caused severe losses in the crops.”
“These regions must not remain neglected,” Atiq said, warning of escalatory acts if the farmers' demands were not met.
Vast parts of Mount Lebanon are mostly mountainous and agricultural areas with poor infrastructure.