Saudi-led, US-sponsored bombing campaign has destroyed public infrastructure.
Almost two thirds of the Yemeni population, a total of 16 million people, have no access to drinking water due to aerial bombing, fighting and lack of fuel in the country, Oxfam warned today.
Oxfam said in a statement that the population is being forced to drink unsafe water due to the destruction of public infrastructure, which increases the risk of life-threatening diseases like malaria, cholera and diarrhea.
Millions of people are digging wells for water, which is then taken away by truck and whose price has tripled in recent weeks.
Before the start of the current conflict, 13 million people or about half the population had no access to potable water, but the violence has raised that figure to three million more.
The director of Oxfam in Yemen, Grace Ommer said that the population at risk is equivalent to that of the cities of Berlin, London, Paris and Rome together.
In the streets the trash continues to pile up, people have to go through broken sewers while having to face the reality of not having drinking water for the seventh consecutive week, regretted Ommer, who also reported fuel shortages and lack of medical supplies.