Monday, January 05, 2009
Daliat El Carmel and Usphiyye Waterless
They are two large Druze cities, and they are not paying the water bill to the National Water Corporation. The Corporation has been reluctant to cut the water while their sons are fighting with us in Gaza, but in the end, it left them without running water. Water has become somewhat of a human right, so cutting it for any reason is thought of as unusual collective punishment. I think it was a very corageous decision. If Mekorot succeeds in making them pay, the next target will be the 100,000 Beduins in goatskin encampments in the South that receive water without ever paying for it.
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I take it the Beduin have their own retail distribution system for water. Mekerot could take the retail system as payment for the debt and then cut off individual customers who refuse to pay. If the individual Beduin are paying their water debts to the camp authorities then it is the authorities who are ripping off both the Beduin and Mekerot.
Please pardon any misspellings.
I meant Druze, not Beduin, but my point is probably valid there too.
They have the same problem in some townships in South Africa. I don't think they cut them off.
Anon
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