Water resources in Lebanon are polluted by the discharge of untreated or insufficiently treated industrial and domestic wastewater. These untreated waste waters pollute both the rivers and the sea.

The supply of quality drinking water would be a first step into sustainability. It would discharge less polluted wastewater, reduce the need to buying expensive bottled water and increase the awareness for the need of wastewater treatment.

Plus, buying less water in plastic bottles saves money for every household and reduces plastic waste in Lebanon.

And all these projects, even in small scale, protect the environment.

Lebanese power outages have been the norm for decades. The ailing grid of Lebanon’s public energy provider Électricité du Liban (EdL) and the current context have proven incapable of providing the Lebanese with 24/7 electricity access. To the point that the EdL turned off all its power plants in October 2021.

Generally, scheduled blackouts last anywhere between 3 hours a day in Beirut to more than 12 hours outside the capital and give people only two options: either go without electricity for hours or pay for costly and increasingly unaffordable generator power. The latter suffering from the same struggles to provide electricity due to the lack of petrol and US Dollars to buy it.

The Lebanese consumer pays the highest electricity bills while experiencing the most unreliable and lowest quality service in the region.

To make matters worse, EdL’s grid is nearly completely relying on thermal power plants operated on expensive and polluting heavy fuel oil. So do the diesel generated backup grids. Air pollution in Beirut triples the level deemed a hazard by the World Health Organization.