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Syria and Permanent Water and Sanitation System

permanent water and sanitation system: Some tankers come loaded with fresh water for the more than 80,000 refugees who have settled at Zaatari, while others haul away the waste. The tanker-truck system is eventually set to be replaced by a more permanent water and sanitation system that says will provide better access to water at less than half the current annual cost. , according to CBC. Since 2012, the number of people in need inside Syria has grown from roughly one million to 12.2 million, or by 1,120 per cent , a report from the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs says . Every day in Jordan, 85 tanker trucks make 300 trips to provide water and handle sewage for the Zaatari refugee camp, a sprawling settlement set up to accommodate refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria. That the plan, but the $14 million US system isn't expected to be up and running until mid-2016. Stephen Harper says Canada won't ask Syria consent for strikes Canada to resettle 10,000 more Syrian refugees over 3 years Lebanon limits entry of Syrian war refugees (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.