Water Quality and Use in Palestine In the Gaza Strip, with 78% of the population connected to sewerage networks and the remainder relying on on-site services such as septic tanks, … Countries: Palestine - June 6, 2024
Water Scarcity and the Israeli Occupation: How Territorial Fragmentation is Worsening Water Stress in Palestine Israelis extensive control over the water sector in the West Bank is visible in the restrictions on water infrastructure and water treatment projects … Countries: Israel - Palestine - April 25, 2024
Water Management in Palestine After the Oslo Agreement in 1995, the Palestinian Authority (PA) began establishing credible public institutions, laws, regulations, strategies and … Countries: Palestine - July 6, 2023
What Does the Future Hold for Water in Palestine? The water sector faces several financial issues, including a drop in project financing and low bill collection efficiency. In 2032, the Palestinian … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
Palestine Water Report Currently, Israel uses approximately 85% of the West Bank’s available water resources, leaving only about 15% for Palestinians. Following the … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
Shared Water Resources in Palestine The Oslo Agreement has been criticized for not dealing with the Palestinian water share of the Jordan River, the shared Western and North-Eastern … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
Water Challenges in Palestine The lack of a sufficient, safe, reliable and affordable water supply, as well as the absence of an effective wastewater treatment system, not only … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
Water Infrastructure in Palestine The Gaza Strip, with its 3,428-km-long water distribution network, faces an alarming and worsening situation, with only 1% of the population having … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
Water Resources in Palestine The exploitation of surface and groundwater from available water was 79% in 2019, putting these resources at risk if the recharge rate outstrips the … Countries: Palestine - June 5, 2023
MENA in Focus: Key Takeaways from the UN 2023 Water Conference A range of challenges were presented: the region is water scarce, and the two main river systems, the Nile and the Tigris/Euphrates, are drying up … Countries: Egypt - Israel - Morocco - Palestine - Turkey - UAE - April 4, 2023
What role for environmental peacebuilding in addressing the water challenges of the Middle East? Balancing local and regional environmental peacebuilding with the risks of persecution or social ostracism thus remains a challenge for civil society … Countries: Iraq - Israel - Jordan - Lebanon - Palestine - Syria - Turkey - April 13, 2022
Interview with Mohammad al-Hmaidi, CEO of the Palestinian Water Sector Regulatory Council Mohammad al-Hmaidi explains the challenges and achievements of the newly established Water Sector Regulatory Council (WSRC), an institution that began … Countries: Palestine - October 23, 2017
COCOON Planting Technology to Grow Trees in Palestine In 2016, Fanack, Land Life Company (LLC) and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) initiated a pilot project to bring the innovative COCOON … Countries: Palestine - May 2, 2017
Gaza’s Water Crisis The water crisis in Gaza is steadily worsening for the past decade. The causes are rapid population growth; the overpumping and pollution of local … Countries: Palestine - September 15, 2015
Gaza Strip Residents Face Daily Struggle for Water The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with an estimated 4,500 inhabitants per square kilometre. The population has … Countries: Palestine - February 10, 2015
Q&A with Dr Ahmad Yaqubi If the water issue is not urgently addressed, the outlook for the future is catastrophic. Gaza’s growing population needs water and the aquifer can … Countries: Palestine - January 10, 2015
Why Gaza is Running Out of Fresh Water Gaza’s water crisis has been steadily worsening over recent decades. The area’s only source of fresh water is the Coastal Aquifer, a groundwater … Countries: Palestine - January 10, 2015
Red Sea-Dead Sea Project The Red Sea-Dead Sea project. The catchment of the Dead Sea covers approximately 42,000km, stretching from southern Lebanon to the Sinai Peninsula in … Countries: Israel - Jordan - Palestine - September 24, 2014
