The World Health Organization on Tuesday voiced concern over the deteriorating water quality and the disease risks rising with it in Gaza ahead of the upcoming winter, Anadolu reports. “What is extremely worrying for us is that the quality of the water is deteriorating,” Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, told the weekly press briefing in Geneva. She noted that microbiological contamination has almost tripled this year, while laboratory capacity remains limited, allowing authorities to detect and track only essential microbiological contaminants in the water and the environment. “From the more than 6,500 samples that were tested, we went from just under 6% contamination in January to almost 20% last month, just last August,” Van […]
