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Israel: Palestinians Could Do More to Increase Their Water Supply

(Jerusalem Post) Sharon Udasin and Lahav Harkov - The Palestinians currently have much more access to water than in any country in the Arab world except Lebanon, Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said in an interview last week. Israel supplies the Palestinians with 80% more fresh water every year than what was required in the Oslo Accords, and if the Palestinians would recycle their sewage water as Israel does with most of its own, the Palestinian water supply would be even greater. "We told Palestinians we are willing to give them all the knowledge, but they insist on using fresh water and sending us sewage," Erdan said. He expressed concern that there will be no solutions for household waste and sewage from the new Palestinian city of Rawabi.
2011-09-13 00:00:00
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