Water Crisis May Make Gaza Strip Uninhabitable By 2020
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
In the Gaza Strip, 97 percent of freshwater is unsuitable for human consumption, and raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea. Facilities for desalinating and treating water function on only a limited basis, as Israel controls the flow of fuel and supplies into the region. But Israelis, too, could face consequences from contaminated water. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
Duration: 7 minutes (00:06:57) Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —