Palestine peopel is suffering by serious water shortage.

Now,Islael have preside water.Islael and Jewish colonian pull abundant water from under gound of Palestine,moreover, don't allow Palestine people to dig ground to get water. If they dig to get water,they would shot.

Now,water in Palestine people drinking is obviously salty. The quality of water is terrible.

Beside of them,Jewish colonist in Palestine use abundant water to wash their car and have big pool and water for plants in their garden...

This is strategy of Islaeli primminister Shron.He made wars and occupied territory of Palestine had water underground where is West bank,Goran highland,etc...

One of important reason why he did invasion to there. More detail imformation is here. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80859e/80859E00.htm http://www.yale.edu/environment/publications/bulletin/103pdfs/103shamir.pdf http://www.al-bab.com/arab/env/water.htm http://www.bankwatch.org/downloads/waterforpalestine.pdf http://waternet.rug.ac.be/ http://www.phg.org/ http://water.usgs.gov/exact/publications_pal.htm

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About Sharon,he decleared won't withdrow from West bank any more. The Gaza strip was no important profit from there.

But in Westbank,there is water under ground.

To get under ground water,Sharon did many invade war against the area.

His aim is not changed. 

Palestine people use drainage from Islael return to Palestine to aguriculture.

Recently,Islael flushed massive plluted water into Palestine destrict.

This is so bad for health of Palestine people.

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million cube meter/year

Place           home    agriculture    industry      total

Jordan        78         739.5           43.5           870

Islael          672        1365           129           2166

West Bank  57           89              included      146

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Gaza         50            85             included to   108

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Thank you so much Catherine,you know and explain the situation of Palestine daily life well...

The reference above the graph is here.

For Jordan: Middle East Regional Water Supply and Demand
Development Study, 1998, http://www.unu.edu/unipress/unupbooks/
80859E02.htm#Hydrography; for Israel: Statistical Abstract of Israel,
No. 51, 2000; for the WBGS: PWA, Water Sector Strategic Plan, 2000.

There is many sources reserch about Palestine water rights.

This imformation is from Japanese website compiled panphret from institute below.

「PASSIA」（ Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem

http://www.passia.org/

『Water -The Blue Gold of the Middle East』（2002,July）

You can read this panphret from below by download.

http://www.passia.org/publications/bulletins/water-eng/index.htm

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