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Illegal mining settlements along the interoceanic highway which connects Peru’s Pacific ports to Brazil. Photograph: Dan Collyns/The Guardian Terry Brett is covered in scratches, dirt, blood and ash. A member of the remote area firefighting team, he has seen many campaigns across the state in areas only accessible by helicopter. We don’t wash our clothes, we save every little drop,” he told CNN, describing the water situation as “catastrophic.” Finding clean water is becoming an all-consuming – and increasingly difficult – challenge for many Gazans.
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Access to clean water has long been one of the hardest challenges for those living in the Gaza Strip. The 140-square-mile territory is one of most densely populated places on Earth. It’s 2pm on a Monday in October when the fire alert is sent: “5-day strike team - immediate deployment”. As the water system collapses, some Gazans have been forced to drink dirty, salty water, sparking concerns of a health crisis and fears that people could start dying from dehydration. Water is a voracious energy user because it is so heavy, said Kellogg Schwab, a water and public health professor at Johns Hopkins University. Every liter weighs 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds). Moving water around “takes a massive amount of energy,” Schwab told CNN.
Hospitals face “an imminent water and sanitation crisis,” Peeperkorn, from the WHO, said. Some have so little water, they are struggling to sterilize surgical equipment. Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza to fill up plastic bottles with water. It’s only enough for his family’s most basic needs. Under hot dry winds any ember that crosses the line can reignite the blaze so within 20 or so metres of the edge every log is upturned, every burning tree extinguished and ashes doused with water. It is hot, dirty, dangerous work. Throughout the day burned trees collapse across the fireground. Gazans are now living on less than 3 liters of water a day, according to the UN, far below the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) recommended 50 liters as the absolute minimum needed to meet basic needs, including drinking, cooking and hygiene.
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But Gaza received just 60,000 liters of water on Saturday, Ghunaim said. To cover the bare necessities of the 2.3 million people living in the enclave requires 33 million liters every day, he told CNN. Israel has since allowed some water to flow through one of the three pipelines that run into Gaza, but experts say it covers only a tiny percentage of the enclave’s needs. Most of Gaza’s water comes from local sources – but the fuel required to pump and clean it is fast running out. Experts fear the spread of waterborne diseases like cholera and dysentery, which would put more pressure on a health system already teetering on the edge of collapse. The only water people have is essentially non-potable seawater mixed with sewage,” said Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Some are being forced to drink from farm wells, according to the non-profit Oxfam. Gary said he was encouraged that the Biden administration had called out the threat posed by corruption. Now, he said, it needed to act.
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