At least two Palestinians were killed and several others injured.
At the height of the protests and shootings on the border of the Gaza Strip earlier this year, when Israeli forces killed more than 100 Palestinian protesters and left thousands of others injured, a senior member of the Israeli army wrote a letter to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).
A perpetual crisis In July 2017 the UN published a detailed report on Gaza and its environment.
"On the ground, life for the average Palestinian in Gaza is getting more and more wretched," said the report.
The report projected that water resources in the aquifer will be completely exhausted by the end of 2018.
According to the UN, in 2017 blackouts for the majority of householders in the territory were lasting up to 20 hours a day.
Sewage discharged into the sea is moved northwards by winds and currents.
Last year a desalination plant in the south of the Gaza Strip became operational, supplying 75,000 people in Khan Younis and Rafah with drinking water.
After more than 10 years of delays caused by war and the blockade, the North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment plant, which will cater for the sanitation needs of more than 400,000 people, finally started preliminary operations earlier this year.
The US$75m project, funded by the World Bank, the EU and a number of other donor countries, still faces considerable difficulties, particularly over its power supply.

The Government of Canada is contributing more than $588,000 to this project, and the Government of Quebec is providing more than $388,000.
Quotes "We are committed to investing in local infrastructure that provides Canadians with access to reliable and modern water and wastewater treatment services.
The Saint-Marc-des-Carrières project is one of many projects we are supporting in the Quebec City region to help protect the environment and keep our communities healthy."
Joël Lightbound, Member of Parliament for Louis-Hébert and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities "The Government of Quebec is investing in all regions, supporting municipalities and their local public infrastructure projects.
These investments generate important local benefits and support the development of our regions, while promoting vitality and improving the quality of life for residents.
Together, we are working to enhance community services and create environments that are pleasant and prosperous."
Michel Matte, MNA for Portneuf, on behalf of Martin Coiteux, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Minister of Public Security, and Minister Responsible for the Montréal Region "The City of Saint-Marc-des-Carrières welcomes the announcement of this contribution, which will help revitalize infrastructure along de la Station Street and Narcisse Avenue and maintain the quality of the public services we provide to our citizens.
The Government of Canada will invest more than $180 billion over 12 years in public transit projects, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, trade and transportation routes, and Canada’s rural and northern communities.
When combined with contributions from the Government of Canada and municipalities, this means more than $14.3 billion will be invested in municipal infrastructure in Quebec during this period.
Associated Links Federal investment in Quebec infrastructure projects: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/map-carte/index-eng.html SOURCE Infrastructure Canada Markets Insider and Business Insider Editorial Teams were not involved in the creation of this post.

Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.
Meanwhile the citizens, including women, are experiencing several problems such as inaccessibility to water, sickness due to bad water quality, etc.

About 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces have felt the brunt of the worst drought in the country’s history with millions of people affected and thousands of households displaced in search of water.
The country’s 2018 harvest is expected to be even lower; down from 4.2 million metric tons to 3.5 million metric tons, the UN said in a recent report.
KABUL: Sardar Wali had to wait three weeks for his turn to have a well dug by a drilling firm in Kabul, and after two weeks of drilling the only sign of water appeared 80 meters below the surface.
About 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces have been hit by the drought with millions of people affected.
With livestock dying and no crops, thousands of households have been displaced in search of water.
Thousands of cattle have perished, and canals and streams have dried out because of lack of snow fall and less rain this year.
Afghanistan’s northern region, considered its food basket, is also badly affected.
The Afghan government launched a $100 million appeal in mid-April for immediate livestock protection for an initial two months of fodder/feed support and an overall demand of $550 million for 10 months’ fodder/feed support throughout the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
Many lack access to safe drinking water, shelter or adequate sanitation facilities and diseases such as diarrohea, as well as malnutrition, are widespread among drought-induced IDPs,” the UN report said.
Local authorities have begun emergency food and water distribution with the help of NGOs and the UN in some parts, aiming to prevent the flight of more locals.

Criss-crossed by over 150 rivers, Malaysia is a country that sources 98 per cent its water from streams and rivers.
Protecting natural water sources and ensuring a steady supply of drinking water for Malaysians has therefore been a key priority of the SPARK Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Heineken Malaysia, which last week announced it would be investing RM2.5 million into water conservation efforts.
Under the third phase of its Working Actively Through Education and Rehabilitation (W.A.T.E.R) project, SPARK Foundation will fund two key initiatives in the river basins of Sungei Way, Sungai Penchala and Sungai Selangor.
Under the ‘Water for Water’ project, a rainwater harvesting system will be set up in a residential unit with 1,800 residents in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Secondly, the ‘water for quality’ projects of Heineken Malaysia’s Water Stewardship Agenda, also launched last week, will focus on reforesting and planting wetlands to improve the natural water filtration system at selected points in the north Selangor peat swamp forest and along the Penchala basin respectively.
“The W.A.T.E.R Project has been a success due to smart partnership with government agencies and communities.
The second phase, which started in 2009, kick-started education and outreach programmes for communities living along Sungai Senam, tributaries of the Kinta river basin and the Sungao Penchala basin to teach them about river adoption and pollution mapping.
“But through consistent engagement to improve awareness on the issue, we eventually saw local communities taking ownership of the river agenda when they saw the potential of real changes in the environment, which helped improve their quality of life,” she added.
Indrarajah said climate change posed the biggest threat to Malaysia’s water security, but this could be an opportunity for businesses that work with water or use water as a resource.
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The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.
The programme does not allow expenditure towards constructing laboratories either.

KALAMAZOO, MI — Tests of 15 water pumping stations serving the Kalamazoo municipal drinking water system found results under a federal health advisory for contaminants PFOA and PFOS.
According to a Monday, July 30 letter from the Department of Environmental Quality, PFOS and PFOA was found between 2 parts per trillion and 19 ppt in three stations and did not detect any level at 12 pumping stations.
PFOS and PFOA compounds are part of a collection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, an emerging public health threat contaminating water supplies across the Michigan.
Other PFAS compounds were found in two additional Kalamazoo pumping stations.
The EPA does not have regulations for total levels of PFAS compounds.
Kalamazoo will supply clean water as an "interim" solution to the Parchment groundwater wells being highly contaminated with PFAS.
It will connect the two water systems, allowing Parchment’s system to be fed by Kalamazoo’s drinking water supply.
"It’s all dependent on the results of the tests," Chamberlain said.
The new tests of both Kalamazoo’s and Parchment’s water systems were conducted as part of a state-wide study of PFAS in public water systems initiated by the state’s Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART).
Chamberlain said the city will now work to identify sources of PFAS contamination.

War, corruption, and poverty have plagued Afghanistan for generations.
These have generally led to a myriad of exacerbating issues like a lack of healthcare infrastructure, education, and political unification.
Agriculture is Afghanistan’s economic foundation — according to the CIA World Factbook, it composes approximately 23% of the country’s GDP.
To contrast, agriculture makes up 0.9% of the United States’s GDP.
20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces have felt the brunt of this drought, and millions of Afghan people have been devastated by its effects.
According to the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Emergency Response Mechanism, Particularly hard hit are the provinces of Ghor and Badghis, who have generated displacement of over 9,000 households into Herat City, and approx.
The vast majority of these households remain unassisted, lacking access to safe drinking water, shelter or adequate sanitation facilities and food, and as a result, sinking into increased vulnerability; sinking into increasing levels of vulnerability and employing negative coping mechanisms such as skipping meals and using money lenders to feed their families.” Some countries are pitching in to help — the U.K. recently donated $13.1 million to The World Food Programme, who aims to provide aid in the areas worst affected by the drought.
They plan to reach and contribute to 1.4 million people, not only providing them with basic supplies but enabling them to have a more successful harvest next year.
A short-term fix may be welcome, but a more effective, long-term solution includes a level of sustainment that will last longer than just a few months.
This is particularly important not only for the families themselves, but to mitigate all the issues involved in mass-migration into major population centers.

Minister for Local Government, Housing and Environment Parveen Bala with residents of Lawaki, Lautoka on July 30, 2018.
Photo: Yogesh Chandra.
Water is a basic need therefore providing access to people is the core initiative by the Ministry of Local Government, Housing and Environment, Infrastructure and Transport.
“Whether it’s an informal settlement or a formal settlement Government will ensure that we reach out and provide water to the people,” Minister for Local Government, Housing and Environment, Infrastructure and Transport Parveen Bala said.
Mr Bala said Goverment had carried out an extension project, which was successfully completed.
before you leave this meeting, to give your names and we will make sure that you also have access to water at your place.” Mr Bala said that informal settlements generally faced major challenges in getting access to clean drinking water.
“As far as this Government is concerned, it will provide for everybody,” the minister said.
Another issue raised by the people was drainage works in the area.
A resident said their drains were not deep enough to accommodate the flow of water and always got flooded during heavy rain.
Some people highlighted problems relating to their lease agreements.

The New York City Housing Authority’s handwritten “Annual Roof Tank Inspection Reports” chronicle a history of tainted drinking water tanks that the housing agency failed to report to city health officials, according to an examination of hundreds of internal NYCHA documents and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene records.
Indeed, tank cleaners that currently clean and inspect the tanks have complained about NYCHA’s tanks to this reporter for years.
“Whenever we find a bird in the tank, 9 times out of 10, it’s NYCHA,” said a tank company employee in 2014, who requested anonymity to speak without authorization.
She says this happens two or three times a month in her third floor apartment at the Chelsea Houses Addition, a NYCHA building for elderly tenants.
“They always claim to be cleaning the water in that tower,” Santos said of the rooftop drinking water tank on her building.
A handwritten note on an internal NYCHA inspection report from 2017 reads: “Birds inside the tank, flat door need to be replaced.” City & State obtained hundreds of internal NYCHA water tank inspection forms through a records request with the agency.
The city health department did not directly answer questions from City & State about whether the discrepancies between the contamination that tank cleaners saw in the tanks and the spotless inspection reports NYCHA filed with the health department were a concern or a violation of any laws or regulations.
Even though it seems to them that NYCHA has been increasing the number of repairs it approves, many times, the next time they see the tank is a year later and it still has the same problems.
In 2017, birds were again found in the water supply tank, according to an inspection report.
From the available records, it appears two more years went by before NYCHA inspected that tank and those 2016 and 2017 reports show no structural or sanitary problems whatsoever.