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<p>In the last financial year alone, our support meant that over 4.1 million people
within Syria were provided with clean drinking water. In the Northwest, for example,
DFID’s support is providing access to water and sanitation services for highly vulnerable
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including one programme that is using trucks
to deliver water services, reaching over 67,000 people in need across over 100 IDP
sites in the area. Elsewhere, DFID has funded UNICEF to provide life-saving water
to the approximately 40,000 people in Rukban IDP camp.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed
to supporting neighbouring countries who are hosting Syrian refugees. For example,
since the start of the crisis, the UK has provided funding to support sustainable
access to clean water or sanitation facilities in Lebanon for over 1.1 million people
in need from Syria and Lebanon. In Jordan, the UK is providing £14.1 million to UNICEF
between December 2016 and November 2019 to provide refugees with access to clean drinking
water, through installing water systems in refugee camps and delivering water to vulnerable
households in host communities. DFID also provided £8 million to UNICEF in the last
financial year to enhance access to water and sanitation infrastructure for the most
vulnerable communities in Iraq, including to camps which host Syrian refugees.</p>
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