Yemenis' daily trek to fetch water symbolizes hard life struggle in war-torn country

STORY: Yemenis' daily trek to fetch water symbolizes hard life struggle in war-torn country DATELINE: March 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:45 LOCATION: HAJJAH, Yemen CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of villagers filling their water bottles with water in a water station in the Abs district of Hajjah province, northern Yemen 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): AHMED SAHILY, Local villager 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ALI MOHAMMED HINI, Local villager STORYLINE: In the Abs district of Hajjah province in northern Yemen, where large swathes of land are just arid sand, fetching and storing water is a great challenge for everyone as water infrastructures are either too outdated to function or completely nonexistent. Ahmed Sahily, 21, said many wells in the region have dried up due to a lack of proper maintenance, which forced many villagers to take an exhausting trek in the desert to fetch the water. Besides him, many people were still waiting impatiently as the sun was gradually setting down - most of them also had a long road