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Palestinian Water Sector: Status Summary Report - September 2012

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In preparation for the Meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) 23rd September 2012, New York

Severe water shortages and acute water quality problems continue to negatively affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Rather than caused by environmental factors, both are attributable to the discriminatory water policies and practices Israel has instituted across the occupied Palestinian territory over the last forty five years. Without access to and control over their rightful share of the trans-boundary freshwater resources located in the occupied West Bank, and without an end to Israel’s punitive land, air and sea blockade over the Gaza Strip, Palestinians have little hope of improving their current economic situation and no hope of building a sovereign and viable Palestinian state.