Gaza's Other Crisis—Not Enough Clean Drinking Water

Wall Street Journal

20 hours ago

In Gaza, the problem isn't just the daily struggle to find food. It is also finding enough clean water to drink.
Most of the enclave's water facilities have been damaged or destroyed in nearly two years of war. Residents trek long distances and queue for hours to fill up jerrycans with groundwater from wells for washing and with desalinated water distributed by water trucks for drinking. Families ration how much water they drink and sometimes drink the groundwater, even though it is often contaminated by seawater or sewage.