Syria: Are water supplies being weaponized by Turkey? Jennifer Holleis © Provided by dw.com Around half a million people are suffering from water outages in the Al-Hasakah region Around one million people in the Kurdish-governed region of Al-Hasakah in Syria's northeast have again had their water supply cut off — as they have around 20 times in the past 12 months. "This is a humanitarian disaster," Sara Kayyali, a Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch, told DW. As of this Sunday, some parts of the region are experiencing the eighth straight day without water. Problems w...