TRIPOLI — Mains water is to be restored to western
Libya after a week-long cut prompted by sabotage threats from loyalists of a
jailed Muammar
Gadhafi-era official, the water authority said.
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"The wells and pumps are being switched back on to
gradually restore supply," the authority said on its Facebook page
Saturday.
"The crisis is over."
The announcement brought welcome relief to Libyans forced to
cope without
water as a summer heat wave gripped North Africa.
The water authority is responsible for a huge network of
pipelines, dubbed the Great Man-Made River, which was one of the major projects
of longtime dictator Gadhafi during his four decades in power.
It brings water from underground aquifers deep in the Sahara
desert to settlements on the Mediterranean coast.
Last weekend, the water authority shut down the pipeline
network in a bid to contain any damage, after loyalists of Gadhafi's
brother-in-law Abdullah al-Senussi threatened to sabotage it unless he was
released.
Senussi was sentenced to death in 2015 for his role in the
attempted suppression of the 2011 uprising that toppled Gadhafi.
He remains in prison in the capital, Tripoli.
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