16 - 31 December/2004
Introduction
The report includes summary of results of the information and update for communities surveyed during the previous two weeks. The section includes four major tables with brief comments on the data presented in these tables. Summary of information and update for the surveyed communities during 16 - 31 December 2004.
The WaSH MP has been updating the data collected during the past two years. The new survey focuses upon rapidly or significantly changed or changing data and collects and analyzes Mekorot Company supply during year 2003 and 2004
24 communities of the WB and GS have
been surveyed during the past two weeks. A new questionnaire has been prepared
to illustrate significant changes and elements of interest to key stakeholders.
Collected data is presented in the following tables at the end of this
section.
General comments:
Table 1: Water Supply by Tankers for Communities Surveyed during 16-31 December / 2004.
Comparisons of prices of tankers water before and during the current Intifada are presented. Most of the communities suffered from the noticeable increase in the price of water, reflecting the effect of closures and curfews on water transport.
Effect of checkpoints, fixed and mobile, earth mounds and curfew is estimated in this table, 2 indicates a "severe" effect on water transport and the location is completely blocked, 1 indicates an "intermediate" effect i.e. delays between 1 and 6 hours, and 0 indicates no effect on the water transport. A comparison of supplied quantities now and before the Intifada is also presented.
- It is noticed that price of tankers
water in At Tayba / Ramallah Governorate is clearly higher than prices
in other Governorates. In the Gaza Strip, tanker water is usually used
on emergency situations and it costs about 35 NIS per cubic meter.
- The effects of fixed and mobile checkpoints,
earth mounds and curfews on water transport are presented in the table,
with the numbers indicating the extent of closures as above.
- Supplies of tanker water before and after Intifada are also presented in the same table. Communities that do not have defined quantities in the table do not rely on tankers as a source of water supply for the community.
In Table 2, total water quantities supplied to the communities are collected, and more specifically, quantities supplied by Mekorot Company now and before the Intifada are collected from local councils of these communities. In this table, "water supplies from all sources" include all water supplied from all sources in that community including supply from Mekorot Company. 22 out of the 24 surveyed communities get all or a considerable part of their supplied quantities from Mekorot Company as a main source of domestic water.
Supplies are reduced in 21 of the communities that get water from Mekorot Company, and 1 community is not affected by reduction.
Table 3: Effect of checkpoints, earth mounds, and curfews on access to services in the Wet Bank and Gaza Strip.
In this table, summary of effects of fixed and/or mobile checkpoints, earth mounds, and curfews on access to services including access of water tankers, access of maintenance teams, and access to Public Health Centers (PHC) are presented. Most of the surveyed communities are affected by more than one of these effects, but those affected with fixed check points are those which are suffering the most ( 'Ajjul and At Tayba / Ramallah, Al Fureidis / Betlehem, Kharsa, Al Majd, Zif / Hebron).
Table 4: Water supply for the surveyed communities and its major problems.
Table 4 summarizes major problems in selected surveyed communities.
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