News Highlights: Turning on the Taps to Help Lebanon’s Poor and Syria’s Refugees

It seems impossible but true. Lebanon has one of the world’s largest amounts of available fresh water and yet its people have such limited access that the taps for many are turned on for only a few hours a day. Now, the World Bank Group has announced a massive project that will soon get water flowing to over 1.6 million people in and around Beirut, improving the lives of Lebanon’s poorest, including Syrian refugees seeking shelter from conflict back home.