All vital Bahrain roads are passable: Works Ministry

TDT | Manama

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The Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning yesterday continued its efforts to remove rainwater, especially in main streets, hospitals, health centres, mosques, official institutions, and within cities, villages and neighbourhoods.

It also attended to complaints from residents in various governorates of the Kingdom of Bahrain following heavy floodings due to intermittent rain showers throughout the day yesterday and overnight downpours on Saturday.

The ministry’s rain emergency team sent 70 tanks in addition to rainwater suction pumps in the four governorates to the sites where rainwater caused flooding.

It said that as of last night, all vital roads are passable, and that rainwater drainage systems are under control and are working efficiently.

Works Minister, Eng. Essam bin Abdullah Khalaf, Eng. Ahmed Al Khayyat, Undersecretary for Works Affairs, and Shaikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Undersecretary for Municipal Affairs, visited several sites in various governorates to check on the efforts of the emergency teams.

The team works round the clock to clear the main roads and streets, in cooperation with the various concerned authorities.

Eng. Khalaf praised the cooperation of the governorates, the General Administration of Civil Defense and the General Administration of Traffic.

The Ministry’s Municipal Affairs has allocated a hotline for each municipality to receive reports round the clock.

Contact numbers The numbers to be contacted are the following: Works Affairs-Main Streets 17875493, Sanitary Drainage 80001810, Capital Municipality, morning period 39144976/17983033, evening period 33922083, Muharraq Municipality, morning period 17984324/17984326/17984322, WhatsApp 17984327, Municipality of the northern region, morning period 17985020/17985477, WhatsApp 179850110/179850110; Hotline 80070000, Southern Region Municipality, morning shift 17986145/17986180, Hotline 39641880, General Administration of Civil Defense 17239300, Electricity and Water Authority 17515555.