"Attili, who heads the Palestinian delegation on water negotiations with Israel, says Palestinians depend heavily on rain and underground water sources, which Israel controls.
...Under the Oslo Accords, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip buy most of their water from Israel. Attili says this water is expensive, and he wonders why Palestinians should pay for their own water."
...Attili says that 97% of the fresh water in the impoverished coastal enclave is unfit for human consumption.
'The first issue to mention is the situation in Gaza. Water isn’t fit for human consumption. Some reports say 60% of diseases are water-related,' he says.Millions of liters of raw sewage dumped into the Mediterranean off Gaza are creating an enormous health crisis, leading the United Nations to predict that the small, overcrowded area will soon be uninhabitable, he relates.
'Our women are delivering blue babies because of the high concentration of nitrate. We are having kidney problems,' he notes."
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And when it rains, it pours. A Palestinian schoolboy walks through a street flooded by wastewater in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on November 14, 2013. (NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)