September 18,
2024
In late 2020, a
report titled Saving Gaza Begins With Its Waterstated:
The water crisis
in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the
more than 2 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave... The Coastal
Aquifer from which Gaza pumps water is diminishing; but more dangerously, it is
experiencing significant deterioration from seawater and highly saline
groundwater intrusion, as well as sewage pollution.
A woman carries a water container in an
area sheltering displaced Palestinians, in Khan Yunis in the southern
Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images)
