What Institutional Discrimination Looks Like
May 3rd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged New War, Resource Wars, Social Discrimination, Social Inequalities
The World Bank has released a report on water distribution in Gaza:
Le Monde has a summary of the findings:
As the article indicates, we already know that Israelis consume four times more water than Palestinians. The table above show the allocated pumping in aquifers as written in the 1995 Oslo Accord. The Accord basically institutionalizes this inequality.
But there is more:
The deteriorating situation in the occupied territories has made it more difficult for the Palestinians to maintain the existing wells in the context of a growing population. What this amounts to is a great potential for water war (more) as an integral part of the conflict.
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