INFORMATION -Mohammed T. Obidallah a commenté un lien. This just wrong misleading information with inaccuracies and false claims. One of many misleading information, 2.59 million Palestinians reside in the West Bank. The total water quantity allocated to Palestinians under Article 40 is 118 MCM/y, with an extra 28.6 MCM to be supplied by Israel in addition to the quantity of water supplied to Palestinians at the time of signing the interim agreement. Palestinians have access to little over 150 MCM/y of fresh water in the West Bank. This figure comprises 98 MCM/y that Palestinians extract from natural resources (wells and springs), and an additional 52 MCM/y that Palestinians are forced to purchase from the Israeli water company Mekorot due to ongoing Israeli restrictions on the development of Palestinian water infrastructure, including wells. The per capita average for Palestinian water consumption in the West Bank is 58m3/y. Israel‟s refusal to permit the construction of new Palestinian wells that are urgently needed, as well as its refusal to allow for the rehabilitation of old wells which have dried up as a result of Israel‟s over pumping of the shared Mountain aquifer leaves some Palestinians with no choice but to drill wells without a permit. The total amount of water extracted from unapproved wells however, remains small, and is no more than 3 MCM/y. Most of these wells were drilled after 2000, and are shallow (tapping the Eocene aquifer of the Northeastern Basin). None are located in the Western Basin. In contrast, licensed Palestinian wells that have dried up as a result of Israeli over- pumping, and which Israel refuses to allow for rehabilitation, used to produce 4 MCM/y. Area C is part of the occupied West Bank, and Israeli water projects located there are intended to service Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law. As such, there is no equivalence between Palestinian water projects and settlement water projects in Area C. Despite this, Israel makes it virtually impossible for Palestinians to receive a permit to drill new wells, or rehabilitate old wells. At present, 32 PWA well applications are awaiting JWC and/or ICA approval, with some of these applications dating as far back as 1999. Since 1967 not a single new well has been approved by Israel in the Western Aquifer. Even with JWC approval, wells located in Area C must also receive ICA approval.6Israel does not submit water projects located in illegal settlements for JWC approval. Not just this I come back with more fact sheet. jpost/Opinion/Columnists/Palestinian-lies-like-water-319582
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:20:54 +0000
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