Updated On: 25 July, 2021 10:32 AM IST | Beirut | Agencies
If the public water supply system collapses, the UN agency estimates that water costs could skyrocket by 200 per cent a month when securing water from alternative or private water suppliers

Water costs could skyrocket by 200 per cent a month. Pic/AFP
More than four million people, including one million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing access to safe water in Lebanon, the UNICEF said in a new report.
With the rapidly escalating economic crisis, shortages of funding, fuel and supplies such as chlorine and spare parts, the UNICEF estimates that most water pumping will gradually cease across the country in the next four to six weeks.