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Article: West Bank water crisis.(IN THE BEGINNING)(Brief article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Wafa Shatleh carries clothes to store in her laundry room July 29 in Beit Jala, West Bank, until her family receives running water so she can wash them. In a report released in early July, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem warned of a grave water shortage in the West Bank. Per capita consumption of water in the West Bank stands at 17 gallons a day, about two-thirds of the World Health Organization's recommended minimum amount. In parts of the northern West Bank, water ...