Lettre type en anglais

Sunday April 10,2016

Mr’s  Mariam Faraj

English 251 Instructor

Lebanese international university

Dear Mr’s Mariam Faraj

    Upon your request , I am proud to present my final report about water problems in Beirut Lebanon .

This report reflexes the cruel  reality  of water problems that Lebanese peoples had been suffering of ages ago, especially in Beirut, Lebanon. This assigned task was provided to students on Mars 7, 2016 and was completed today Sunday 10, 2016. With a lot of researches , hard and uniform work  successful results were found and solutions were suggested in order to overcome the issue.

  This report includes the causes of  salty water in Lebanon and the inability to pump water to all the regions in  Beirut. Some recommendations were suggested like building dams on rivers  in order to save water and filtering water that is pumped to homes.

  I hope this report will suit your recommendations and will have some really good effects that changes this situation in a good way. If any inquiry is required please feel free to contact me at my email address:

11530987@students.liu.edu.lb

Sincerely yours,

Adam Hijazi, student at LIU

Enclosure: long report

The difficulties of pumping good quality water to all regions in Beirut, Lebanon.

Adam Hijazi

                                    Lebanese International University –Beirut

English 251 Communication skills

Section k

Spring 2016

Date : Sunday April 8, 2016

Abstract

Noting the importance of water and its quality on humans life , in Beirut Lebanon especially, this report handles the causes, risk factors and solutions of this major issue.

This document explores the history of water in Lebanon as well as its quality and its effect on Lebanese society. It consists of a well developed discussion about the factors that led to the inability to pump water equaly to regions in Beirut and also the bad water quality that reaches some houses.

Bad quality water causes a lot of diseases and certain death cases were reported over time in Beirut areas. In this report some doctors were interviewed in order to understand the effect of bad quality water on our lives as water is a main vital resource.

A lot of organizations in Beirut spread the awareness of water diseases and  had offered solutions but no responses or real decisions were made.

The majority of Lebanese population is spread all over Beirut that’s why death cases increases in this region faster than the others. Children , old people and adults are being left to die or to face severe illness because of bad quality water they drink.

This situation must change in order to build a good and  healthy society.

Introduction

Background

Water supply in Lebanon is characterized by a number of challenges.

The challenges include poor service quality, in particular areas water supply do not persists a long time despite the availability of relatively abundant water resources; the slow enforcement of the water reform; the separation of responsibilities between various structures such as the Council for Development and Reconstruction, and the Regional Water Establishments, which are in charge of operation and maintenance; limited institutional capacity in the public sector, and in particular the Regional Water Establishments; politicization of decision-making; the absence of an autonomous regulatory agency; poor information about water resources, sector performance and assets; a very low share of metering and the absence of volumetric water tariffs; a high level of water distribution losses; limited cost recovery for water supply; and no cost recovery for sewerage and wastewater treatment. These challenges persist more than two decades after the end of the Civil War. And are the major reasons of our issue.

The Lebanese water organizations has received and continues to receive continuous foreign aid in the form of grants and soft loans from a dozen Western and Arab donors.

According to UN estimates that are not based on any household survey access to an improved water source in Lebanon is universal. The UN figures on water access may not give an accurate picture of the real situation: A representative survey carried out by the World Bank in 2008 estimated that the average connection rate to the public water network was 80%, varying from 96% in Beirut to 55% in the North. These figures are similar to those that came out of a 2004 Household Living Conditions Survey carried out by the Lebanese Central Administration of Statistics. Even considering that improved water sources include protected wells, it is unlikely that water access in Lebanon is universal. For example, many urban households that are not connected to the network rely on water bought from tanker trucks and probably cost much more.

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