Hawsh al Hariymeh proud woman mayor carries the problems of her village to public officials

In its issue of last Friday, the As Safir newspaper profiled the woman mayor of Hawsh al Harimeh, Maryam Hussein al Adwi, a women in her sixties reputed for her strength in the area.  Al Adwi is proud of her constituency who voted for her giving her a margin of 200 votes more than her competitor.  Al Adwi's reputation is tinted with that of her own neighborhood which is alas a major source of pollution in the Litani plain and lake.  Indeed, residents of this area discharge their sewage into the Litani as the area is yet to be equipped with a sewage system.  In her interview with the newspaper, Al Adwi notes that she planned to run for elections on a women-only list but this was not possible because of a number of local problems namely the assassination of the region's previous mayor.  As such, she has remained in her post whilst awaiting the next elections, but never fails to raise with public officials the issue of the Litani pollution and the situation of poverty which affects all the region's inhabitants. (As Safir, September 16th 2016)