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New Gaza Sewage Plant Will Receive Electricity from Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Sharon Udasin - The Northern Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment (NGEST) Project, a World Bank plant in the Beit Lahiya area, has been largely inoperative due to electricity shortages. Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said Wednesday that Israel is committed to meeting the facility's increasing needs and that the government has approved three different solutions that could fulfill the electricity needs of the treatment plant. Last week, a group of U.S. congressmen demanded that Israel provide a solution to the electricity supply problem for the plant. As renovations of the NGEST plant continue, Ben-Dahan stressed that Israel will be prepared to meet the facility's electricity needs, and that the approved solutions are currently being examined by the Palestinian Authority and the international community. Completion of the facility will occur in 2019, but the first stage enabling the plant's operation should conclude in 2017 - necessitating 3-5 MW of added power.