Report

Construction and Rehabilitation of Water Sources in Area C

NRC|Published 15. Mar 2013
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Israel Palestine Information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA) Law and policy
This memo is intended for legal practitioners, and provides an overview of the legal and administrative regime controlling the water sector in Area C of the West Bank.

One dimension of the embittered Israeli-Palestinian conflict concerns the use of water. In 2009, the World Bank assessed that Israelis enjoy disproportionate use of fresh water resources over four times that of a Palestinian and Palestinians are forced to buy water from Israeli companies.

The Palestinians in Area C suffer greatly from the complexities of the political situation in the West Bank, and often suffer limited access to available and clean water.

This publication has been written by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), produced with the assistance of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection.