Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Friday urged the international community – especially the Palestinian Authority's Mediterranean neighbors – to work to find a solution to the dire problem of water access in the territories.
"We must work to increase access to available resources and find a solution, based on international laws for sharing water resources," Fayaad said.
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The countries signed a declaration calling for "contributing to the emergence of low carbon, resource efficient and climate resilient economies."
Increasing the Palestinians access to water resources, said Fayaad, "Is a challenge. An effort must be made to address this problem in the political process. We must find a solution to increase the availability of water for the population."
The Palestinian leader said that "less than 10% of the population had access to drinking water in Gaza."
"Israel takes 90% of the water and it leaves us with 10% of resources, our situation is particularly difficult our problems are real – water consumption is below the average recommended by the World Health Organization, he added."
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