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Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab world.

Yemen is a country struggling with water shortage as it is situated in an arid region with no inland lakes or rivers. Yemen had always banked on rainfall, springs, borehole wells, and dams of different sizes .The maximum depth of wells is often a few dozens of meters beneath the surface of the earth water is pumped out in small quantities manually.
The issue of reducing water losses and wastage has become more stringent within the last decade because of the decreasing possibility to develop new water sources. In particular the development of new sources in semi-arid and arid countries is either not feasible because of the enormous investments or not sustainable because the development and operations investments, which would be required, are excessive, and therefore it is more economic to use the available water sources carefully instead of looking into the possibility of developing new ones.