While Rome burns

ENAR

A good way to judge the efficacy of a proposed solution is to ask how, if implemented, it would alter the outcome of a situation. By this metric, the Ministry of Energy and Water’s (MoEW) proposed solution to Lebanon’s water shortage fails miserably. The plan roughly amounts to the following: households should use less water (see “Turn off the tap“). This, of course, is precisely what is already happening — because many homes are already running out of water. Coupled with the lack of any real plan, the ministry’s call for citizens to conserve water is an insult. True, we all could and should be more responsible users of this resource, but the state seems to forget that its negligence is the reason people throughout the country are either being extorted by most likely unlicensed private water delivery services or suffering without life’s most basic necessity because they’re too poor