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Gaza Power Cuts Affect Sewage Treatment


(Gulf News-Dubai) Nasouh Nazzal - In April, the Palestinian Authority stopped paying Gaza's electricity bill. This means sewage treatment plants are receiving 3-4 hours of electricity a day, not enough to process Gaza's sewage. Gaza municipalities are now dumping 70,000 cubic meters of untreated sewage into the Mediterranean daily and the pollution has started reaching Egypt and Israel.
2017-05-05 00:00:00
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