Gaza City – Water in the Gaza Strip is mostly undrinkable and loaded with health hazards.
Large-scale desalination plants, funded by international donors and private businesses struggling to mitigate the crisis, are in full swing in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But a new high-tech effort is coming from an unlikely source: a company based in Israel.
Israel’s crippling 14-year blockade has worsened the water disaster facing Gaza residents, with key materials and equipment needed to produce potable water withheld from the coastal enclave.
A Russian-Israeli billionaire – shocked by images of children filling water in plastic containers from a street vendor – decided to act.
Published on: Wednesday, January 06, 2021
By: AFP
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Watergen has developed atmospheric water generators that can produce 5,000 to 6,000 litres of drinking water per day, depending on the air’s humidity, and donated two machines to the Gaza Strip.
GAZA CITY: The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air.
Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007, is the brainchild of a Russian-Israeli billionaire, Michael Mirilashvili.
The company he heads, Watergen, has developed the atmospheric water generators that can produce 5,000 to 6,000 litres (1,300 to more than 1,500 gallons) of drinking water per day, depending on the air’s humidity.
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Bonus: They even refer to Hamas as a “terror group.”
The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new Israeli project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air.
Unusually, the project operating in the Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel since the Hamas terror group seized control there in 2007, is the brainchild of a Russian-Israeli billionaire Michael Mirilashvili.
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Watergen has come up with a way to produce drinking water out of thin air, to help struggling Gaza residents.
The technological solution involves water generators which function like dehumidifiers. These produce 5,000 to 6,000 litres of drinking water per day, depending on the air s humidity, and can help anyone from remote rural village communities to private homes in the city.
So why is this necessary? The Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient amounts of drinking water. Since the 2007 Hamas takeover of the territory, 2 million inhabitants have been faced with a border blockade by Israel. Chronic power cuts have led to increased water contamination and so people rely on local vendors who pump water from the ground and desalinate it before selling.
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