9-9-2019 Adapting to climate change under ‘water apartheid’- David Kattenburg Mondoweiss


https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/adapting-climate-apartheid/

 

…Will Israel approve the proposals Palestine has put forward under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at adapting to water scarcity? Will it grant permits for the wells Palestinians want to rehabilitate, the cisterns, tanks, earthen dams, soil water harvesting systems and leak-proof conveyance systems they want to build, from Jenin and Tulkarm in the north, down to Bethlehem and the South Hebron Hills, so that Palestinians can continue to live on their land, whatever Earth's climate delivers over the next fifty years? Or will Israel say no?  Five years into one of the region's worst droughts, water scarcity on the rise, 'water apartheid' amounts to forced transfer. Both are egregious crimes. The 'crime of apartheid' is a crime against humanity.

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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