Gaza’s Other War Is Over Water
Gaza’s Other War Is Over Water -
Of all the things the governments of Israel and Gaza have against each other, the fate of a water treatment plant would seem like the least of the problem. A little-noted UN report released in August argued the opposite: that the rockets flying between the two sides may be less destructive than long-standing wrangles over water.
Gaza in 2020 is sober reading even as govern resource reports go. Being a desert, sources of water are few, straining an aquifer that feeds the tiny strip as well as parts of Israel and Egypt. According to the U.N. Environment Program, only ten percent of the aquifer remain potable, and it will become entirely useless in as little as three years, beyond which point it will take centuries to replenish itself. From the UN study…