Water and Health Department

Sections:

Water Section
Health Section

About the Department:

The Water and Health Department is a vital department within the municipality, playing a direct role in maintaining public health and ensuring the continuity of water services for citizens. The department manages and regulates water distribution, monitors water quality, and carries out maintenance and development work on the networks. It also oversees public cleanliness, waste collection and removal, and health and environmental monitoring, all in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and in the interest of public safety and citizen well-being.

Health Section

To clarify the work carried out by the Health Section throughout the year, it can be summarized as follows:

Collecting all types of waste (domestic, commercial, and agricultural) and transporting it to the Joint Services Council for processing according to scientific principles. This includes cleaning streets and public areas, with approximately 60 tons of waste collected daily.
Monitoring all municipal facilities to ensure the highest standards of cleanliness. Conducting health and environmental inspections and monitoring of all food establishments, including restaurants, bakeries, cafes, pastry shops, and others.
Inspecting and monitoring markets, grocery stores, and food warehouses, checking production and expiration dates, food storage methods, and food suitability for human consumption. Confiscated spoiled food is destroyed in cooperation with the Civil Defense, the Health Directorate, and the Environmental Quality Authority.
Monitoring drinking water sources (water network, springs, and wells) by collecting water samples in cooperation with the South Hebron Health and Environment Directorate, testing free chlorine levels and conducting microbiological analyses, and providing chlorine to residents.
Detecting and following up on citizens' complaints regarding health and environmental hazards, taking necessary actions, and notifying the relevant authorities.
Cleaning culverts and stormwater drainage units.
Guiding and educating shop owners about not dumping waste in public streets, monitoring building owners who dump dirt or waste in streets and public squares, and taking legal action against them. Issuing licenses for various trades, professions, commercial, and industrial activities, after ensuring compliance with public health and safety requirements and payment of applicable fees, and then renewing them accordingly.
Following up on complaints related to the rescheduling of waste collection fees.
Participating and coordinating with various ministries and government institutions within joint field work on health and environmental committees, particularly with the Southern Health Directorate, to ensure integration, enhance coordination, avoid duplication of work in the areas of public health and safety, and achieve the public interest.

Water Department

The Water Department is one of the most important and vital departments in the municipality, given its fundamental role in providing services related to supplying citizens with water and ensuring its continuity and quality. The department performs the following tasks:
Monitoring the distribution of water to citizens through the water network and from its sources (Al-Hadab and Al-Simya), by tracking the pumping route, supervising the opening and closing of valves, and monitoring water pressure throughout the distribution cycle.
Monitoring meter readings for the quantities of water entering the city in coordination with the Water Authority. Monitoring the process of supplying citizens with water via municipal tankers (10 cubic meters and 4 cubic meters) through the municipal filling station.
Monitoring water network maintenance, including valves and manholes, and addressing technical malfunctions.
Coordinating and following up with the Water Authority regarding issues related to water quantities, networks, or maintenance work on parts owned by the Water Authority.
Following up on the procedures for disconnecting and installing water meters, whether due to technical malfunctions or accumulated debt, based on reports received from the collection department.
Connecting new citizen subscriptions to the water network according to approved procedures.
Implementing projects to establish new water networks within the city, and working to improve the existing network and replace damaged pipes.
Designing water networks and providing technical supervision for the implementation of various water projects.
Following up on citizen complaints related to water access or maintenance work, and working to resolve them.
Replacing traditional water meters with prepaid water meters, and monitoring the implementation of this according to approved plans.