tonight i'm very tired, it's getting late. i havent got much sleep lately because of work, school and family still i cant sleep now. yesterday my uncle suffered a heart attack,thanks to God he's doing much better now and ready to get home, . i'm afraid because of that i wont be able to type much, i just thought i should pay some attention to the most critical up rising crisis of the situation here.
this week a lot of people died of cancer, my mom went to 2 funerals on the same day in our neighborhood. a new crisis is on the doors of the west bank; lack of clean water. the Israelis throw their toxic waste [specially from the Dimona nuclear base] in clean Palestinian water. another way of murder! Over 200 communities in the West Bank lack access to water, while Israeli settlers in the West Bank have full access to clean running water. The inequality in the water situation in the Palestinian territories is exasperated by the fact that Israel will not allow the Palestinian to develop water sources. i think Israel's intention is as clear as the sun's eye.
B'Tselem: Israel to Blame for West Bank Water Shortage
01/07/2008
Palestinians living in the northern West Bank drink one-third of the per capita water consumption recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a report published on Tuesday by the NGO B'Tselem.
The human rights organization wrote that on average, Israelis drink 3.5 times as much water as Palestinians. It charged that "the chronic water shortage results in large part from Israel's discriminatory policy in distributing the joint water resources in the West Bank and the limits it places on the Palestinian Authority's ability to drill new wells."
Water Authority spokesman Uri Shor told The Jerusalem Post that the distribution of water between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is based on an agreement between the sides. "Israel has observed the agreement and then some," he said.
According to B'Tselem, the problem in the West Bank has been compounded this summer by the lack of rainfall over the past few years. This past winter, rainfall was 64 percent of the annual average in the northern West Bank and 55% in the south. The total water shortage could reach 79 million cubic meters.
According to WHO, the total number of cubic meters required by an urban individual for all his needs amounts to 100 cubic meters. In Tubas, the average water consumption, including for livestock, available to residents is 30 litres per person. In Jenin, it is 38 litres. In Israel, the average per capita water consumption is 235 litres in the city and 214 litres in towns.
Another problem faced by the Palestinians is that 227,500 of them, living in 220 villages and towns, are not connected to the water system. They are forced to purchase water from vendors at three to six times the regular price. It said families that cannot afford to buy water draw it from unsupervised wells, leading to an increase in infectious diseases in many rural areas in the summer.
Source: AJP