Emergency Water Trucking to Aleppo Humanitarian needs in Syria have significantly deteriorated since the beginning of crisis, with 13 million in need of humanitarian assistance. Moreover, the volatile security situation and sudden displacements that have occurred over the course of last week have highlighted the need for a rapid response capacity.
There are warnings that Aleppo city may become under besiege in the next few weeks, more than 320,000 persons are still in the city, located in 60 Neighborhoods. 
Therefore, Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) is proposing an emergency water distribution project to ease the suffering of people in the city, potable water will be supplied after treatment for 218,334 individuals under this proposal. Under a separate WASH proposal QRC operates water tankers to supply the drinking water to have relieved the suffering of Aleppo populations during the project by having better access to water on daily basis for three months.

QRC will be implementing this project in partnership with Ihsan For Relief and Development. Currently, Ihsan maintains a strong presence in the city, through implementation of emergency response FSL program, as well as protection programming. Ihsan’s strong relationship with Aleppo Local Council, has been essential in enabling such access in the hard to reach areas in the city. 

The QRC provided the local council with 6 water tankers last year (4 of them with 7500 L capacity and 2 with 25,000 L capacity), and will provide one more water tanker (with 7,500 L capacity) in the next a few days.

In this proposal QRC intends to provide the local council with additional 5 water tankers (each with 7500L capacity). Therefore, the total number of water tankers for water supply activities becomes:

 9 water tankers with capacity of 7500 L
 2 water tanks with the capacity of 25,000 L

The 9 water tankers with 7500 L capacity will conduct 6 trips per day and the 2 water tanks of 25,000 L capacity will conduct 5 trips per day. The total amount of water that will be delivered is 655,000 L ((9 * 6 * 7500) + ( 2 * 5 * 25,000)) = 655,000 L. Each beneficiary will receive 3 L per day, so the services will reach 218,334 beneficiaries. 

The water will be transported from safe water wells based inside Aleppo City, with primary treatment by adding suitable dosing of Aquatabs, which is 8.68 G tabs for each 1,000 liters (655 * 90 = 58,950 tabs). 

The QRC will also provide adequate fuel, reflective of the size of the tanker. Specifically, 25 liters of fuel per day for the 9 water tankers with capacity of 7500 L and 50 liters for the 2 water tankers per day with 25,000 L capacity. Finally, 150 liters of fuel per generator will be provided for four separate water stations. The total amount of fuel is therefore: (25*9+50*2+150*4)*90 = 83,250 liter for three months.

The main outputs of the project include:
 218,334 people will have direct access to the safe drinking water for three months
 83,250 liter of fuel will be stored as reserve inside Aleppo.
 58,950 Aquatabs (8.86gr) will be stored as reserve inside Aleppo
 The Local council of Aleppo city will own and operate 11 water tankers

The main outcomes of the project include
Support 218,334 persons of Aleppo citizens with higher resilience capacity

QRCS will provide weekly progress updates to the WASH Cluster