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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Dangerous levels of bacteria and heavy metals have been found to contaminate the running water in Libyan schools across the country. This has turned water into a spreader of disease among Libya’s children, resulting in some cases from water sources becoming contaminated by sewage despite Libya not lacking the resources needed to reform the water quality monitoring system and hygiene regulations in schools. Salim Mansour (11) suffers from a severe allergy and blisters on both hands caused by the unclean water in his school in Abu Eissa, a village in Zawiyah municipality, northwest Libya, accord…