NATO Blockade Causing Water Shortage in Libya

The Libyan government warns that it faces a major water shortage if NATO continues to block delivery of needed supplies. Libyan Agricultural Minister Abdul Majeed Al Gaoud said water production has dropped to nearly one-fourth of its levels before the NATO bombing campaign. Abdul Majeed Al Gaoud told Democracy Now: “Out of two million cubic meters a day, the production is only, more or less, about 450,000. Because we were depending since few months, since the main networks have been cut, we were depending just on our power plant in Sariyah. Out of the six turbines in Sariyah power plant, only one right now is working, not because we don’t want to switch on the other five, because the other five needs maintenance, needs spare parts.”