Minister of Environment Tariq al-Khatib inspected the course of the Litani river in Bar Elias, accompanied by MP Assem Araji, and examined pollution and the emission of unpleasant odors. He confirmed that “follow-up of the matter and guidance by a book to the Council for Development and Reconstruction to implement the procedures agreed in the Council of Ministers No. 106 on 27102016, including the establishment of a channel in Bar Elias length of 2 km and a half kilometers and width of 7 meters and height of 3 meters, and allocated $ 25 million” .
“As a result of the complaint I received from MP Assem Araji, I wanted to personally visit this place and to take responsibility for the treatment,” Khatib said, adding that the cry of need near the gorge, as well as students at the nearby school group, The smell smelled and I realized how painful and painful people are. ”
He added: “The issue of pollution of the Litani River has become a national issue as everyone knows and was allocated large amounts to clean it from the House of Representatives and there are several procedures started and others are supposed to be carried out The pollution of the Litani sources of many, the first sanitation and waste factories, and if we completed the waste plant in Bar Elias And the sanitary landfill and we completed the canal and we controlled factories and industrial waste and we set up refineries, including the refinery in Bar Elias, which the Italians took on with a sewerage network after the CDR prepared a book of conditions, we will be treated.
“Everything related to me as an environment minister will be done and I will follow up with other officials in an effort to relieve our people in the Bekaa of the pains and calamities they are complaining about,” he said.
