The Cleaning and Improvement Fund for the City of Aden began an intensive campaign to open the flood lanes leading to the sea in the Al-Haswa area, Al-Buraiqa District, in anticipation of any emergency due to climate change, according to meteorological warnings about the occurrence of heavy rains and floods that may lead to disasters, God permitting.

During the campaign, the Acting Director of the Cleaning Fund, Mr. Nabil Ghanem, directed the campaign team, led by Mr. Khalil Al-Hajj, Director of Waste Management, to quickly increase the pace of work and be able to fully open the flood lanes and move the accumulated dust out of the city to the Bir Al-Naama dumpster belonging to the Cleaning Fund.

Nabil Ghanem said that the campaign comes under the directives of the Minister of State and Governor of Aden Governorate, Mr. Hamid Al-Lamlas, who has been paying great attention to the work since warnings were issued by the meteorologist and the agricultural office in the governorate about expectations of heavy rains in the city of Aden and the neighboring governorates whose valleys are connected to Wadi Al-Haswa. The floodwaters reach the sea adjacent to the residential city of Enmaa.

Nabil Ghanem pointed out that the accumulated dust that closed the flood lanes and which the Cleaning Fund is opening and transporting to the dump is construction waste that citizens throw in sensitive areas, and that its proliferation will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe if rain falls because it has closed the flood lanes. This is irresponsible behavior. Citizens must be aware of its dangers by refraining from throwing waste in flood paths.

Wadi Al-Haswa is considered the only channel through which floods pass to the sea, but in recent times it has witnessed random construction and the filling of the paths with dust from construction waste, which caused their closure.