Terrible thirst hits Gaza with polluted aquifers and broken pipelines

GAZA/CAIRO: Weakened by hunger, many Gazans trek across a ruined landscape each day to haul all their drinking and washing water — a painful load that is still far below the levels needed to keep people healthy.Even as global attention has turned to starvation in Gaza, where after 22 months of a devastating Israeli military campaign a global hunger monitor says a famine scenario is unfolding, the water crisis is just as severe according to aid groups.Though some water comes from small desalination units run by aid agencies, most is drawn from wells in a brackish aquifer that has been further p

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