ABSTRACT
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that came out of the 2002 Johannesburg Earth
Summit called on the international community to half the population living without safe and
adequate water and sanitation by 2015 (World Health Organization [WHO], 2009). This
mandate has implications for many developing countries-not the least of which are those where
water resources are contested, such as the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza.
