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Desalination comes with health dangers

Desalination sounds like the quintessential solution in a world undergoing climate change, but it isn’t. The process of removing salt from the Mediterranean Sea brings with it health dangers. Magnesiu...
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Gaza: Widespread Deprivation of Water

Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that amounted to “acts of genocid...
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Israel: No rain until Hanukkah

Israel’s Meteorological Service reported in an update that the amount of precipitation that has fallen since the beginning of the season and so far across the country is significantly lower than...
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Gaza: 1.2M Palestinians without water

The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 million residents and displaced individuals in the area without access to clean water, amid ongoing I...
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Water as weapon, workers as victims

Four Oxfam water engineers were killed in southern Gaza, who were on their way to repair water infrastructure. Their “clearly-marked vehicle” was bombed despite prior coordination with Isr...
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Palestinians struggle to access water

For Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, access to water has been a struggle for years. Interim agreements from the 1990s have allowed for a water disparity between Israelis and Pale...
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Desalinated water could lead to diseases

We have come so far in destroying the water cycle and the availability of good, healthy drinking water that more and more people have to rely on sea water, which is treated in huge, energy-intensive d...
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