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1. Introduction

Throughout history begining with Marib Dam,Yemen has been famed for its traditional Water Harvesting (WH) systems. Unfortunately, during recent years many of these traditional systems have deteriorated due to labor out-migration, and unregulated drilling of wells due to the significant flow of remittances.

These factors combined with a generally water scarce environment have caused a severe water crisis. SFD has intervented to address this crisis by rehabilitating and expanding traditional WH systems and through constructing new WH systems.

Yemen is a country in which there is:

Water supply and sanitation service coverage in Yemen are inadequate illustrated by the following facts:

2. Objectives

The main objectives of the WEU are:

3 WEU Scope of Intervention

The WEU contains two sectors, water and environment, and each sector is divided into the folowing sub-sectors:

Sector	Sub-Sector
Water:	Piped Water Supply
	Water Harvesting
	Dams
	Irrigation Systems
	Training and Awareness
Environment:	Wastewater management
	Solid Waste Management
	Soil  and Water Conservation
	Flood Control
	Desertification Control
	Training and Awareness

• SFD Institutional Evaluation  Feb, 2006
• Yemen Handicraft Website
• Yemen Field Visit Report
• Poverty Reduction
  Global Learning Process
• Yemen Fighting Illiteracy
  through Poetry