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Most of Gaza’s water comes from local sources – but the fuel required to pump and clean it is fast running out. As the water system collapses, some Gazans have been forced to drink dirty, salty water, sparking concerns of a health crisis and fears that people could start dying from dehydration. Without it, Gaza’s water system has crumbled. Gaza’s fuel supplies could be exhausted in as little as 48 to 72 hours, Ghunaim, from the PWA, said on Monday. Even before the conflict, many experts were saying the water situation would be “catastrophic in the future,” Hall said.

Persons: Mohammad Al Shanti, ”, Natasha Hall, Mazen Ghunaim, Mohammed Abed, Ghunaim, Richard Peeperkorn, “, Kellogg Schwab, ” Schwab, Al Shanti, Omar Shaban, COGAT, Mark Regev, Benjamin Netanyahu, Herzi Halevi, Philippe Lazzarini, ” Hall, ‘, Khan Younis, Mahmud Hams, Hall, Haitham Hassan, – Organizations: CNN, Aqsa, UNICEF, Palestinian Water Authority, UN, Health, Middle, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Oxfam, PWA, West Bank, CSIS, Johns Hopkins University ., Strategic Studies, Getty, WHO, Israel Defence Forces, UNRWA, “ Locations: Al, Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Egypt, AFP, “, Territories, Egypt’s, Khan

The last functioning desalination plant shut down on Sunday due to lack of fuel, as did the last functioning wastewater treatment plant, the UN reported. Israel turned on one line of water in the south of Gaza for three hours on Monday, but the UN relief agency in Gaza said it served only 14% of the population. Fuel shortages and dangerous airstrikes have also led most water trucks to suspend operations, and bottled water is severely limited and unaffordable, according to the UN. In 2021, about 90% of Gaza’s water came from groundwater wells, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. The remaining 10% of the water supply comes from the desalination plants or is purchased from Israel’s national water company, Mekorot.

Persons: Israel, Gazans Organizations: CNN — United Nations, UN, World Health Organization, Palestinian Water Authority, CNN Locations: Israel, Gaza, Khan Younis, Rafah, Egypt

Following the deadly Hamas rampage across southern Israel on Oct. 7, which killed more than 1,300 people, Israel ordered an immediate cut-off of the country’s water supplies to the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotOn Sunday, Israel’s energy minister said that a decision to renew water supplies to parts of southern Gaza was agreed on between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden. On Monday, Hamas said that Israel had yet to resume water supplies for the Gaza Strip despite pledging to do so, while an Israeli official responded that some water was being provided to an area in the south of the enclave. Bar chart comparing the daily water consumption in litres per capita in Gaza and Israel. Map showing 3 desalination plants and 6 wastewater plants in the Gaza Strip.

Persons: Khan Younis, Ahmed Zakot, Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Israel, ” Organizations: United Nations, REUTERS, U.S, Health, WHO, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Water, Palestinian Water Authority, Records, UNSCO Atlas, Sustainable, Resources, Israeli Information Center, Human Rights, World Bank Locations: Gaza, Israel, Sinai, Egypt, B’Tselem, Territories

[1/5] Palestinians walk past piles of garbage that threaten to spark an environmental catastrophe, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Two residents in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, volunteered to fill plastic containers with water to distribute among displaced families. Hamas said on Monday that Israel had not resumed water supplies to Gaza despite pledging to do so. "Now, we're filling in salt water, I'm ready to drink from the salt water - what else can we do?" Even before the latest conflict erupted and Israel cut electricity and fresh water supplies to Gaza, 90 percent of the water was undrinkable, according to the Palestinian Water Authority.

Persons: Khan Younis, Mohammed Salem, Philippe Lazzarini, Israel, Israel Katz, Mohammad Saqr, Saqr, Mohammad Hadhoud, Michael Georgy, Janet Lawrence Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, UNRWA, Israeli Energy, Palestinian Water Authority, Thomson Locations: Gaza, GAZA, Israeli, Khan, Israel, kibbutzes, Egypt, Palestinian

☆ Gaza Strip: devastated by conflict and Israel's economic blockade
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Palestinians look at the destruction of a house in the aftermath of a strike amid the conflict with Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 12, 2023. The Palestinian Gaza Strip has been a frontline of conflict with Israel for decades and cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years. Egypt held Gaza for most of the following two decades, until Israel seized it during a 1967 war. Egypt, which shares a 12-km border with Gaza, has largely supported the blockade, viewing Hamas as a threat to its own stability. More than 90% of water in Gaza is unfit for drinking, the Palestinian Water Authority says.

Persons: Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Egypt's, Cross, Tom Perry, Crispian Balmer, Toby Chopra Organizations: REUTERS, Hamas, THE, Watch, Humanitarian Affairs, Palestinian Water Authority, West Bank, Palestinian Central Bureau, Statistics, International Committee, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, GAZA, Gaza City, Egypt, Rafah

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