At the World Water Day, on March 22, 2011, the Faculty of Science, at IUG, organized a meeting of specialists to confirm on the quality of the world’s water and having a process to preserve water in the Gaza Strip.
This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since.
Academic and specialists confirmed that Water quality is as important as water quantity for satisfying human and environmental needs, and yet has received far less investment, scientific support, and public attention. Water quality impacts human health, water quantity, livelihood, and economic activity, and climate change.
Water increasingly threatened as human populations grow, industrial and agricultural activities expand, and as climate change threatens to cause major alterations of the hydrologic cycle.
Academics added that the crisis of water in Palestine is not far from the global conditions toward the challenge of urban, and population growth, climate change, adding that last year water consumption in the Gaza Strip up to (80) million m 2, and the water crisis is equal to about (50%) deficit in the aquifer.
Environmental Quality Authority report referred that the impacts of climate change on the Gaza Strip, including: temperature tends to rise and fall amounts rainfall of 1 / 11 to 1 / 4 of each year, down significantly, and the marked change in the features of the agricultural system.
