May 5, 2017

Gaza Power Cuts Affect Sewage Treatment – Nasouh Nazzal (Gulf News-Dubai)
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.