title: [Quality of water and access to it in the occupied Palestinian territory].
abstract: We investigated access to and quality of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. As regards access, 89.2% of Palestinian families live in households connected to the public water network: 84.1% in the West Bank and 99.3% in the Gaza Strip. In the north and south West Bank, 2.3% of households depend on buying water from tanks but this is not available in the mid-West Bank and Gaza Strip. Rain-fed cisterns are used in 13% of households in the West Bank and 0.2% in the Gaza Strip. Overall, 63% of households considered the water quality good, 88.0% in the West Bank and 13.3% in the Gaza Strip. There was a significant relationship between water-related diseases and water quality: the spread of such diseases was greater in the Gaza Strip.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008877:Middle East; D011633:Public Facilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011891:Rain; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014881:Water Supply / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*