ICRC Activities in Burundi: December 1993 - 12 August 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 70 p.): Burundi: water for survival

ICRC Activities in Burundi: December 1993 - 12 August 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 70 p.)

		(introduction...)
		VIOLENCE IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
		ICRC FIELD ACTIVITIES
		ICRC activities in Burundi up to mid-December 1993
		Burundi: Annual report 1994
		Burundi: new outbreaks of violence in Bujumbura
		Burundi: wounded evacuated from northern districts of Bujumbura
		ICRC activities in Burundi
		Burundi: more civilian victims of violence
		Zaire/Rwanda/Burundi: ICRC voices acute anxiety
		Burundi: Water - the source of life
		Burundi: water for survival
		ICRC convoy attacked in Burundi
		Burundi: grenade lands in hospital room
		Burundi: Annual report 1995
		Burundi: emergency operation in Bujumbura
		Update No. 1 on ICRC activities in Burundi
		Burundi: help now ... and for the future
		Burundi: new population movements
		Update No. 2 on ICRC activities in Burundi
		Three ICRC delegates killed in Burundi
		ICRC withdraws its delegates from Burundi
		Tribute to Zairian Red Cross volunteers
		Great Lakes Region: assistance in Goma
		Update No. 96/7 on ICRC activities in Zaire
		Update No. 96/8 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/9 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/10 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/11 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/12 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/13 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Update No. 96/14 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Zaire: ICRC still only organization working in Shabunda
		Update No. 96/16 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Burundi: Annual report 1996
		Update No. 97/01 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis
		Landmines in Africa
		Burundi: Annual Report 1997
		Burundi: Annual Report 1998
		Fact sheet: ICRC in Burundi

Burundi: water for survival

1 November 1995
ICRC News 44

In a country constantly hovering on the brink of further human tragedy, the ICRC is responding to one of the population's most urgent needs. In October ICRC teams provided some 40,000 people on the Imbo plain north of the capital Bujumbura with 800,000 litres of drinking water. The water supply system in this region, formerly the country's "rice basket", has been completely destroyed during Burundi's protracted and bloody interethnic crisis.

The ICRC hopes soon to expand its water distribution project to cover about 100,000 people in the area, but its operations are seriously hampered by continuing security problems: on 28 October one of its tanker trucks was damaged by an anti-personnel landmine. Since then, it has been trying to obtain assurances from the various parties involved that humanitarian workers and equipment will not be attacked or otherwise hindered in their activities.