Only 10% of Gazans have access to potable water: World Bank

‘The World Bank has expressed deep concern over the worsening clean water shortage in the Gaza Strip, stating that only 10 percent of Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave have access to drinking water.
“So much water has been pumped out of the natural aquifer underneath Gaza since the late 1990s that seawater has seeped in, making it too salty to drink,” Adnan Ghosheh, a senior water and sanitation specialist with the international financial institution, said on Wednesday.
“There are some 150 operators who provide some kind of desalinated water that has been filtered to make it acceptable for drinking and cooking. It’s more expensive and not an improved source of water according to our definitions of water clean enough to drink.”’
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