Protesting against drinking water interruption for the past two weeks, thousands of the villages' inhabitants of the Egyptian district of Kafr Saad located in the Egyptian governorate of Damietta threatened to sit in before the Governrate's Headquarter. Water interruption was said to be caused by a fracture in the main barrel extending from of Kafr Suleiman's water station. In response to that problem, the Egyptian Company for Drinking Water has sent four vehicles carrying water to the villages; yet, they were not enough. Moreover, from the Egyptian village of Al-Morabain, Mohammed Abdul el-Rahman said, no drop of water has been available during the past two weeks, forcing the inhabitants to purchase water at ten pounds for a jerricane. Again, Hamdi Zaki, Head of the Local Unit of Al-Morabain confirmed, the water problem has existed for many years; as water might be available for only one day or less, then it disappears for a long period of time. On the other side, AlSaeed Abed al-Majid, Secretary of Kafr al-Ghab's Local Unit, admitted the existence of the problem and said that the vehicles sent by the Egyptian Company for Drinking Water met water needs of only 30.000 persons in the Egyptian villages of Kafr al-Ghab, Abu Abbad and al-Daheima. In the Egyptian governorate of al-Fayoum, the inhabitants of Dar el-Salaam village, Tamyia district, suffer from drinking water interruption for 15 consecutive days and continues to be an ongoing problem. This resulted not only in the poor inhabitants using the canal water so that they could meet their day-to-day needs, but having to go to neighboring villages to get drinking water. For his part, General Mahmoud Nafie, the al-Fayoum's Chairman of Drinking Water and Sanitation Facility, denied the continuous interruption of water from the village, confirming that, water amounts generally decrease in summer.
