BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Following Israel’s dramatic cuts to Gaza’s electricity supply, upon the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli authorities have decided to construct a sewage pipeline for neighborhoods in the besieged coastal enclave, after Gaza’s sewage treatment facility was forced to close due to lack of power supply, Israeli media reported on Saturday.
Israeli media outlet Ynet reported that Israel’s Sderot municipality and the Shaar Hanegev regional council that border the small Palestinian territory were informed of the plan this week, which would include receiving sewage from Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in Gaza through a pipeline constructed near the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing.
Israeli authorities draw the sewage once every few days, Ynet reported.
He said that water used to operate the sewage pipeline should instead be used for agriculture in Gaza.
In May, the PA decided to slash funding for Israeli fuel to the coastal enclave, and requested that Israeli authorities dramatically reduce its supply of electricity to Gaza, which was already reeling from lack of adequate access to electricity and fuel.
As a result of agreements between Hamas, the de facto leaders in Gaza, and Egyptian authorities, Egypt imported millions of liters of fuel into the territory, averting a full humanitarian collapse in the coastal enclave as Israel began to gradually reduce its supply of electricity.
Meanwhile, the United Nation’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov visited Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and other officials in Gaza in order to find a solution to the escalating humanitarian crisis in the territory.
In return, the EU would be permitted to establish an oversight body in the coastal enclave, according to al-Hayat.
The two sides are also reportedly attempting to find a solution to resume the full amount of electricity supplied by Israel to the Gaza Strip.
Gaza, which marked its 10th year under an Israeli-enforced blockade last month, has struggled for years with power shortages due to limited fuel access and degraded infrastructure.

Until 2015, the pond was the ultimate source of water for the 13 households of Gungthramo village.
Tshering said: “Streams and springs are drying every year.
Tshering, mother of eight, goes out with aluminum bowl whenever there is rain.
According to the National Health Survey reports of 2012, 97.7 percent of the Bhutanese have access to piped drinking water.
“If timely intervention is not taken, our livelihood could be in danger.” National issue Drinking water shortage has hit many communities across the country.
The villagers collect water from temporary springs that hold water in summer when there is rain.
The sources disappear in winter.
In Kengkhar in Mongar, drinking water shortage has severely affected about 2,212 people of 482 households.
Though it’s not easy to ascertain whether the disappearance of water sources is purely because of climate change, most of the villagers who depend on ground water, springs, streams, ponds and wells for drinking said that erratic rainfall could be one of the main factors leading to drying of water sources.
Compared to rural areas, demand for water in urban centres is much higher.

Some areas may not be safe or accessible for vaccine workers because of fighting.
Despite these encouraging statistics, the risk for spread remains, and the ongoing civil war is battering the country’s health-care infrastructure.
Cholera is waterborne and is often spread when drinking water is contaminated by sewage water that has fecal matter from infected people.
As the civil war continues, it will be important to keep water treatment facilities running to ensure a sustainable supply of clean water.
Get food to people.
Being infected by cholera, in turn, makes it difficult for people to properly absorb nutrients from the food they take in, exacerbating any existing malnutrition.
In the middle of an outbreak like this, cholera specialists say, it’s critical to send clear messages to the public about how to stay safe.
UNICEF has been propping up water sanitation.
They paid to keep the water treatment plant in Sana’a operating after it shut down because power plants weren’t operating.
Stop the war.

Interactive water exhibit ‘Flow’ opens at Impression 5.
The exhibit is two stories tall allowing plenty of room for the kids to splash water around.
“This thing runs just like a pool, it shoots clean water all over the place,” said Eric Larson, Executive Director of Impression 5.
“Water is a hook for kids because they naturally experiment with it and what we are trying to achieve at the science center is to have kids become scientists through behavior.” By using sailboats and even a water vortex, the museum hopes the experience opens the eyes of kids to STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) related fields.
The goal is to also help kids get a better idea of where drinking water comes from and the struggles other countries face in getting access to clean drinking water.
His favorite thing was the water vortex.
“We tried putting something in there and then we couldn’t find it anymore so defiantly don’t put anything in there.” It’s been a long journey but seeing smiles of the faces of children has made that journey worth It for staff at Impression 5.
“It’s our next level up for what we can do here, what Impression 5 can build, and the impact it can have on the community,” said Larson.
Ponchos are made available to anyone worried about getting wet.
Click here for more information about Impression 5 including admission prices.

MULTAN-Over 2,600 Sahoolat (convenience) Centres will be set up in Multan and Lodhran districts to supply potable water to citizens under Khadim-e-Aala Saaf Paani Project, disclosed Bilal Ahmad Butt, Commissioner Multan.
Chairing a meeting to review progress in the project here on Friday, the Commissioner added that the project had been launched to make citizens’ access possible to the clean drinking water.
He added that the Sahoolat Centres would be set in all rural and peri-urban areas.
He directed the Deputy Commissioners of all districts of Multan division to hold meetings in their respective areas and submit a report on the progress in the project.
It was told during the meeting that construction of 155 centres in 124 villages of Lodhran, 210 in 178 villages of Kahror Pakka and 136 in 130 villages of Dunyapur would be completed soon.
It was further revealed that survey to acquire land for setting up centres in Multan had been done work for installation of tubewells would begin in July.
In Multan, as many as 908 centres will be set up in 262 villages of Multan, 451 in 247 villages of Shujabad and 451 in 295 villages of Jalalpur Pirwala.
The centres will be set up at a minimum distance of one kilometre and 2000 to 5000 citizens will benefit from each centre.
This news was published in The Nation newspaper.
Read complete newspaper of 01-Jul-2017 here.

Interactive water exhibit ‘Flow’ opens at Impression 5.
The exhibit is two stories tall allowing plenty of room for the kids to splash water around.
“This thing runs just like a pool, it shoots clean water all over the place,” said Eric Larson, Executive Director of Impression 5.
“Water is a hook for kids because they naturally experiment with it and what we are trying to achieve at the science center is to have kids become scientists through behavior.” By using sailboats and even a water vortex, the museum hopes the experience opens the eyes of kids to STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) related fields.
The goal is to also help kids get a better idea of where drinking water comes from and the struggles other countries face in getting access to clean drinking water.
His favorite thing was the water vortex.
“We tried putting something in there and then we couldn’t find it anymore so defiantly don’t put anything in there.” It’s been a long journey but seeing smiles of the faces of children has made that journey worth It for staff at Impression 5.
“It’s our next level up for what we can do here, what Impression 5 can build, and the impact it can have on the community,” said Larson.
Ponchos are made available to anyone worried about getting wet.
Click here for more information about Impression 5 including admission prices.

Canada turns 150 tomorrow, and the government is spending half a billion dollars to throw huge birthday parties all around the country. There’ll be cake, live music — even a giant rubber duck. But not everyone’s thrilled. Indigenous people have clashed with police and set up a tepee on Parliament Hill to protest what they call a celebration of colonialism. And the hashtag #Resistance150 has spread across social media. Tanya Talaga covers indigenous issues for the Toronto Star. She says that there’s a number of reasons that many indigenous Canadians won’t be participating in Canada Day events, but two stand out. One is the residential school crisis. For nearly…

Canada turns 150, but indigenous groups call for ‘Resistance150’.
There’ll be cake, live music — even a giant rubber duck.
But not everyone’s thrilled.
And the hashtag #Resistance150 has spread across social media.
For nearly a century, “close to 150,000 indigenous kids were taken away from their families, from their culture, from their language,” Talaga says.
They were put into schools funded by the government and run by churches, she says, and it has done “irreparable harm for generations.” Another issue is access to clean drinking water.
More than 150 "First Nations" communities across Canada must still boil water before drinking it — the oldest water advisory has been in place since Feb. 1, 1995 in Neskatanga First Nation.
“A lot of indigenous people look at how much money is spent on the birthday party,” Talanga says, “and wonder why couldn’t that have been given back to the people that actually need it.” Some indigenous groups have announced their intention to hold counter protests on July 1 to call attention to these issues.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for all Canadians to respect indigenous peoples’ decision not to participate in Canada Day events.
Aspiration: Reconciliation.#Canada150#Resistance150 pic.twitter.com/LDaSFeIGwk From PRI’s The World ©2017 PRI

There is something, somewhere, in the mouth that tells us we are drinking it.
Mouse research has previously indicated that drinking water triggers the firing of nerves that ferry taste information from the mouth to the brain.
Their sour taste cells had been impaired, yes, but why that would make their nerves not register the arrival of water was puzzling.
The team devised a new experiment to look deeper, engineering mice whose sour cells could be activated by blue light.
Then, when they had access to the laser-shooting bottles, they went over to get a drink.
When the blue light hit their sour cells, their taste nerves lit up and looked for all the world as if the mice were really drinking water.
Here’s why this works, the researchers believe: The cells we know as sour taste cells are probably more accurately thought of as sensors of pH.
The drop activates a pH-sensitive channel in the membrane that causes the cell to send a message to the brain, announcing, “Water’s in the mouth.” So why does sour taste sour and water taste like water, if they’re using the same cells to communicate to the brain?
In an earlier set of experiments, Oka and colleagues identified a set of neurons in the mouse brain that, when triggered, make mice want to drink water.
“Now the next question is how do they interact with each other,” he says, speaking of the sensors in the mouth and the neurons in the brain.

Ring the alarm, Queen Bey has something to say and she’s using less than 140 characters to do it.
Now, we’ve come accustomed to tweets being big news — hello, our president and his tiny Twitter fingers — but in Beyoncé’s case the news here is that she actually tweeted.
As Marie Claire, pointed out, Bey’s last tweet was way back on April 23, 2016.
It was the cover of Lemonade with a link to listen to it over at Tidal.
Bow down to her seamless plug of both her and her hubby Jay-Z’s projects in just one tweet.
Advertisement But knowing Jay-Z just dropped his 13th album, 4:44, which is basically his response to Lemonade, you would imagine that her tweet would have something to do with that, right?
Or, being that it’s been reported she’s had the twins, she may throw us a bone and reveal their names?
Nope and nope, but her first tweet of 2017 is very on-brand.
"Mothers in Burundi want to provide clean, safe water for their children," she wrote.
That’s why she’s looking to raise money so that BeyGood can help a million people gain access to clean water, 52% of which is under 18 years old.