A recent study revealed that the PalestinianIsraeli occupation authorities to take over a year more than ten million cubic meters offresher water sources in Gaza, which threatens the stock of the water sector.
The study, published by the Center of the Palestinian right of assembly that Israel is drilling water wells, thereby reducing the pumping of groundwater levels, and divertedfrom within the Gaza Strip to Israel.
She added that the main water problems in the Gaza Strip is to prevent the occupation forcesenter the necessary materials for the operationand maintenance of sanitation facilities, and ill-treatment, as well as the lack of community awareness of the importance of water andmisuse.
The study warned that the situation of the Palestinian water sector continues to deteriorate, pointing to the deterioration of the quality of water produced, and not fit for human consumption and domestic due to the increasing concentration of nitrate and chloridecomponents in groundwater.
And asked the international community to stand in front of his responsibilities and pressure on the occupation forces not to intervene in the water sector in the Palestinian territories, as well as intensified efforts by the government and the competent authorities to develop the water sector and the reduction of problems facing them.
Problem and solutionsFor his part, Director General of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, an engineer Munther Shiblak, that Israel is preventing the arrival of seasonal water coming from the mountains of Hebron, and the western Negev, which was the Gaza Strip has, through the creation of dams and wells feedback along the eastern border.
He Shiblak in a statement of the island, that what Israel is doing is a violation of the understandings of international prohibit the occupying power from exploiting the waters of the occupied territory, stressing that the amount that is being talked about and detain Israel estimated ten to 15 million square heel a year, one of the purest and highest quality water.
He added that what Israel is not enough Bhdzh need the Gaza Strip from water, as the sector is suffering a deficit every year an estimated one hundred million cubic meters of potable water, as well as accelerated degradation of the stock due to the high salinity of underground water.
Revealed Director General of the Coastal Municipalities Water plan to set up a desalination capacity of an initial six thousand cubic meters per day in the region south of the territory, and is expected to arrive within two to twenty thousand cubic meters per day.
He said that the desalination of sea water and to stop relying on underground water tank, even temporarily, will restore life to the underground reservoir, confirming the presence of more than planned waiting for application in this regard.
International crime
For his part, considered the human rightsSamir Zaqout, coordinator of field research inAl Mezan Center for Human Rights, that whatIsrael is doing to steal stock underground water for the Gaza Strip is an international crime,since international law restricts the occupation,use or exploitation of resources in the occupied territory, and forces him to use and employ them for the benefit of inhabitants of the landitself.
The Zaqout in the interview of the island that Israel violates all international laws and international humanitarian law when youprevent water access to the Gaza Strip, recalling what happened last year from the sinking of dozens of homes as a result of damsopened suddenly.
"Israel is not only that but also to have a policysince its presence inside the Gaza Strip areunder the water pollution and its pursuit ofsystematic destruction and changingagricultural patterns that help the purity ofwater and air" as well as the impact of weaponsused by Israel against the Gaza Strip, especially during its aggression against the winter of 2008 - 2009 on the pollution of watersector.
Source: Al Jazeera
