Report: "Thirsting for Justice - violations of the human right to water in

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Report, CESR, 15 August 2003

It is becoming more and more evident that the "Road Map" drawn up by the Quartet and promoted by the U.S. can achieve neither lasting peace nor even a fair "process" to arrive at peace. At the most basic level, the "Road Map" fails to stipulate that Israel must relinquish its matrix of control over Palestinian lives, territory and resources. As with the Oslo Accords, fundamental questions of human rights and national rights, which should form the basis of any lasting peace, have instead been pushed aside and postponed until the illusory end of the peace process.

One of these critical questions is the fulfillment of Palestinians' right to water, recently reaffirmed by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as a fundamental human right. Average per capita consumption of water among Palestinians falls well below WHO standards of 100 litres per day and Israel monopolizes 85% of the water from the mountain aquifer which lies beneath the West Bank. Yet the "Road Map" makes only scant reference to water resources, leaving the issue to be resolved during an "international conference" at an unspecified date following Palestinian elections.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1820.shtml

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1. Interesting...

I wonder what the WHO standards of 100 litres a day are based on? I'm guessing it'd be the minimum amount of water needed to basically survive and wouldn't even take into account that those living in rural areas need a whole lot more just to keep their crops alive....

Violet...