IOM, Japan build solar-powered water supply network for 30,000 Rohingyas

UNB
July 31, 2019

Cox’s Bazar, July 31 (UNB) - One of the world’s largest humanitarian solar water systems was officially inaugurated on Wednesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partner the Japan International Development Agency (JICA).

The network will provide safe, clean water to approximately 30,000 people living in the Kutupalong Mega-Camp from a deep underground well.

Longer dry season shrinks water supply for Rohingya refugees to critical levels

UNHCR
24 May 2019

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

 Rohingya refugees draw water for cooking and bathing from a pond due to limited water sources in Nayapara refugee site, Bangladesh, in January 2018.  © UNHCR/Caroline Gluck

Low rainfall in parts of southeast Bangladesh’s Teknaf peninsula means that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partners are expecting in the next 10-12 days to begin trucking water to more than 140,000 Rohingya refugees living there.