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EU, UNICEF to Build Desalination Plant In Gaza
[Ynet] The European Union...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gazoo Strip to provide 75,000 Paleostinians with drinking water. A joint statement said the project will be implemented by UNICEF thanks to a 10-million-euro ($13.7-million) EU grant. Just 5.8 percent of Gazoo households have good quality water because of increased salinity caused by sewage infiltration of groundwater, according to a statement released Thursday by the Paleostinian Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of World Water Day on Saturday. "Access to clean water is a fundamental human right for all. And yet many Gazooks face acute water shortages on a day-to-day basis," EU representative John Gatt-Rutter said as the first stone was laid for the project. "Others can only access water of very poor quality," he added, saying the new plant "offers the prospect of access to clean water for many thousands of families". The plant at Deir al-Balah in the centre of the territory is expected to become operational in 2015, and will supply fresh water to 75,000 people in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south. Because up to 95 percent of water in the water table is unfit for consumption, "more than four out of five Paleostinians in Gazoo buy their drinking water from unregulated, private vendors, a heavy burden on impoverished families", the EU-UNICEF statement said. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-03-24 |
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