Palestine: Gaza’s water could be undrinkable by 2016
Polluted water in the Gaza Strip is seriously affecting people’s health and the situation looks set to get worse, the UN warns in a new report.
Gaza’s rapidly growing population of about 1.64 million - expected to increase by 500,000 by 2020 - could soon lose its main source of fresh water, the underground coastal aquifer, which could become unusable by 2016, with the damage irreversible by 2020, it says.
Clean water is limited for most Gazans to an average of 70-90 litres per person per day, compared to the minimum global World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 100 litres a day, according to Mahmud Daher, officer-in-charge of the WHO in Gaza.
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See also:
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/48E8D45C0D22529E8525773D0053254F
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/104094048-Gaza-in-2020-A-livable-place.pdf |
File link local | 104094048-Gaza-in-2020-A-livable-place.pdf (PDF, 1546 Kb) |
Source of information | IRIN News |
Keyword(s) | nutrition, health, water, sanitation |
Subject(s) | DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER QUALITY |
Relation | http://www.semide.net/countries/fol749974/country608613 |
Geographical coverage | Palestine |
News date | 03/09/2012 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |