For 100 days, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Idna have been surviving without running water. The town of some 40,000 inhabitants has been relying on rain reservoirs and water tanks sold by vendors. The town’s water crisis was provoked by the April decision of Israeli national water company Mekorot to reduce the daily provision of water to the Hebron governorate of the southern West Bank. The water supply shrank from 32,000 cubic meters to 26,000, which included completely shutting down Mekorot’s water line for Idna.
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PALESTINIANS FILL PLASTIC BOTTLES AND JERRY CANS WITH DRINKING WATER FROM A WATER TANK IN THE WEST BANK VILLAGE OF UM AL-KHAIR SOUTH OF HEBRON, AUGUST 17, 2016. (PHOTO: WISAM HASHLAMOUN/APA IMAGES)