Polluting the waters of Judea and Samaria
It's been about two weeks now since Israel slammed a report by a French assembly member that accused our government of 'water apartheid.' Perhaps this is a better explanation for why the revenants have more clean water than the 'Palestinians' have. Swirling in the strikingly green valley below the southern Samaria community of Nofim is a rambling stream amid grass and trees – filled with dangerous quantities of sewage.Sounds like the kid who killed his mother and father and then threw himself on the mercy of the courts on the grounds that he was an orphan....
A subterranean sewage pipe connects to the underbellies of four of the five surrounding settlements – Nofim, Yakir, Etz Ephraim and Sha’arei Tikva – and will within a few months also connect to that of Ma’aleh Shomron, bringing all of the effluent to a treatment facility in Eliyahu.
Despite Israeli offers to connect the 22 surrounding Palestinian villages to the same pipe, all but one of them refused the proposal, Environmental Protection Ministry and Shomron Regional Council officials explained during an exclusive tour of the area on Thursday.
Instead, their sewage flows into the aquifer below and ends up directly in the stream, according to the officials.
“That’s a testament to the fact that we are doing everything we can to prevent pollution in Judea and Samaria, but nevertheless, the Palestinians refuse to cooperate,” Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan told The Jerusalem Post during the tour.
Labels: Judea and Samaria, Palestinian water infrastructure
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:56 AM
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