Despite headway, wastewater sector faces challenges | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
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Robert Smith| The Daily Star
BEIRUT: July 19 marked the official opening of the 20 million euro ($22 million) Zahle wastewater treatment plant. Despite its shining new facilities, however, it will be a long time before it operates at full potential.
From incomplete sewage networks to underfunded management, it is representative of the formidable challenges the wastewater sector faces. In 2012, UNICEF found that only 8 percent of Lebanon’s wastewater was treated. Yasmina El Amine, an environmental expert at the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute, said that number had improved in recent years, but that more than 70 percent of wastewater still went untreated.