Comments on: Gazan Farmers Struggle With Rising Salinity & Water Shortages

By: JTR

JTR — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:10:22 +0000

Those “powers that be” deliberately encourage a growing population on that postage stamp territory because they hate Israel. So that makes some sort of environmental disaster almost inevitable.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:47:33 +0000

There are other sides to the story as well with Israel trying to help Gaza create its own wastewater treatment plants. I have interviewed parties connected to the UN brokering the creation of such plants, where greywater can be used for agri for instance, but political factions in Gaza don’t let the mayor of the city cooperate with the “enemy”. The problem is very complex, especially when you have a society in Gaza run by force, fear and in some cases brutal violence. It’s not that outsiders haven’t tried to help Gaza. But at some point Gazans too need to collectively decide to help themselves. Again, when you can lose your life for standing up against the powers that be, it’s pretty hard for the individual to make any real change. It’s a sad situation, and I hope that 2012 will bring better resolutions between the people in the region.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:50:10 +0000

Such a shame. I was in OPT some while ago on similar projects and with a little bit of clever (green) engineering and some good will, all those water & energy related problems can easily be solved. Solar powered desalination, sub surface irrigation using water storing polymers, all this is readily available. Tried and tested and ready to go.