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Article: Palestinian Territories Still Clamor for Water.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- November 10, 2002
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By Charles A. Radin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 10--BEIT FURIK, West Bank--Riding the family donkey along the high road through the olive groves, Meri Mohammed Aref Mleitat seems worlds removed from the big questions of war and peace in the Middle East.
But the skinny 15-year-old's daily 6-mile ride to a spring in the side of a mountain, where he fills jerry cans and soda bottles with 20 gallons of water for his family of 12, puts him at the center of a critical issue in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and in the Middle East -- water.
"We have no water at home," he said, incredulous that anyone might be ...
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