Unreliable Water Sources in the West Bank: A Report

Since 2012, graduate students from the Water: Systems, Science and Society Program at Tufts University have been working in Bethlehem to develop and maintain water quality monitoring programs in Palestinian communities. Last year, together with the Najee Center (a Palestinian NGO in the Aida refugee camp) and 1for3 (an American NGO that addresses environmental health and quality of life issues in Palestinian communities), they started a water quality monitoring and education program in Al-Walaja village. 

Unreliable Water Sources in the West Bank: Revealing the Challenges in Al-Walaja Village

Photo Credit: Mohamaah Al-Azza

How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon: Another Example

Was a July water agreement between Israel and the PA a sign of better times to come? Shaddad Attili, former PA Minister of Water, doesn't think so. "Even when the parties were agreed in principle on a project, Israel used its power to force Palestinians to accept less than what is fair," he writes. 

Be sure to watch the three videos imbedded in the article; they will give you a deeper understanding of the water situation for Palestinians.

Politics of water: Stealing Palestinian resources

A Palestinian woman bathes her son with water from a tank filled by a charity inside their dwelling in Khan Younis in the southern  Gaza Strip on July 3, 2017. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

The Israelis Cut Off a Vital Pipeline in the West Bank

Israel to remove Palestinian village's sole water pipe

A Palestinian girl fills jerrycans with spring water in Salfit, West Bank on 27 June 2016. (Medal Eshtayah/Apaimages)