Daniel Biskup Approx. words
INTD 105
10/26/16
Glausiusz’s piece describes how Gaza’s sewage treatment crisis is suffering directly from their conflict with Israel. In recent years, Gaza has faced a problem in both their sewage treatment and water treatment creating issues in both agriculture and public health. Due to their lack of resources Gaza has been unable to treat their sewage and has been forced to dump it directly into the sea. Unfortunately, this contaminated sea water has also managed to enter Gaza’s aquifer, which is their main source of drinking water. Thus, the drinking water has become salinated and contaminated, causing disease in many of Gaza’s residence, as well as salinated sewage, which cannot be treated to create fertilizer. Gaza can solve this issue if only Israel trusted enough to allow the resources that Gaza needs across the border. However, these resources can also be used for warfare, which is why Israel refuses to. This piece reminds me of the water crisis as it relates to the entire world an how much of it could be solved if resources and research were able to easily move, instead of being stopped by conflict and competition.
I think that you did a great job on summarizing the article and I really liked your concluding sentence on how conflict and competition is slowing the progression of humanity.