About 70%of families in Gaza receive water once every 5 days and 30% only have access to water every 7 days according to Rami Abdu a spokesman for The Popular Committee For Countering The Siege of The Gaza Strip.

In addition, much of the water supply is unsafe to drink because of the water and sewage spare parts and maintenance equipment has been barred from Gaza along with the 150000 litres of diesel needed each week to keep the water network operational.

The drinking water is unsafe because the network itself has been damaged by the actions of the Israeli military which has been tearing up roads and fields and the basic infrastructure of the Gaza.

A million people of all ages with all kinds of health needs are one year into a brutal blockade and are surrounded by huge floods of raw sewage .The infrastructure of Gaza is being demolished or destroyed .

It seems like biological warfare is being waged alongside the conventional military and economic blockade of Gaza.Archbishop Tutu of South Africa,that champion of the oppressed, was so right in calling the blockade of Gaza "an abomination".
Hugo