<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Nablus village months without&nbsp;water]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Maan News Agency | Published June 19, 2011<br />
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<p>NABLUS (Ma’an) &#8212; With both the Palestinian Authority and Israel&#8217;s Civil Administration abdicating responsibility, local officials say parts of a Nablus-area village have been without water for months.</p>
<p>While drought is common in the mid-summer, many of the residents of Salem village have been purchasing high-priced water from local companies, or carrying buckets from municipal wells since the end of April.</p>
<p>Head of the Salem village Salim A’dli Ishteiyah said the eastern flank of the village had been the worst hit, with water from the taps having run dry months ago.</p>
<p>It is not just Salem village with problems, Ishtayeiyah told Ma&#8217;an, explaining that each month, Salem and the three surronding villages are allocated 50,000 cubic meters of water. Salem&#8217;s share, he added &#8220;does not exceed 5,000, though we have 6,000 residents and need at least 18,000 cubic meters of water a month.&#8221;</p>
<p>To buy water enough to fill a four or six cubic meter tank in the village, residents pay 150 shekels ($43.70), Ishtayeiyah estimated, noting that as water in the area becomes more scarce, the price has increased.</p>
<p>&#8220;The village depends on raising livestock, they have to be fed and watered,&#8221; the official worried.</p>
<p>Ishteiyah said the village council had appealed to both the Palestinian Authority and Israel&#8217;s Civil Administration, but had received no solutions to the shortage.</p>
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