Palestine, Gaza: sewage reservoir floods in Gaza, killing 5
Updated - Tuesday 10 April 2007
An earthen embankment around a sewage reservoir in Om-Al Nasser village in the northern Gaza Strip that was filled to capacity collapsed, and officials said it spewed a ‘tsunami’ of waste and mud that killed five people. It also forced residents to flee Umm Naser, an area about 300 metres from the border with Israel, where Palestinians have frequently launched rockets into Israel. One local official blamed the collapse on shoddy infrastructure, and United Nations officials said they had warned of such a catastrophe for more than two years.
Contact: Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, Gaza - Palestine, info@cmwu.ps, http://www.cmwu.ps
Source: World Bank Press Review, 28 Mar 2007
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