About the Project

Gaza Water Project is the vision of Ahmed, whose family—including his young niece and nephews—are part of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to leave their homes in Gaza. He has been a champion of social justice causes for most of his life, and had graduated law school intending to dedicate his practice to helping his community before the war.

This is the biggest project Ahmed has ever started, and will bring much-needed aid to many people who desperately need it. With Miranda and Meave, the U.S.-based members of the team, Ahmed created Gaza Water Project to ensure his family, and many others, will have safe, clean water to drink. Currently, the process by which these internally displaced persons fulfill their daily water needs requires thousands of individuals to make daily trips, carrying makeshift jugs for kilometers through ruined streets and cities. They risk their lives every day for just a few liters of water, when the World Health Organization states that one person requires 50 to 100 liters of water daily to meet their basic needs for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, hygiene, and sanitation (source).

To address this crisis, we have identified eight viable wells and five areas where people are in dire need of clean water. Because each area’s population requires a minimum of 8,000 liters of fresh water a day to survive, our Gazan partners will make regular trips to the wells, using mobile generators to pump the well water into rented water tankers, and distribute the water for local storage. This will establish a continuous supply of convenient potable water, reducing the dangerous, exhausting work people have had to endure to provide water for their families.

Estimated Budget

One-Time Costs

$2,000 for two mobile generators to pump the wells; with time and available funds, we may want more, but two is the minimum to start.
$5,000 for 10 10,000-liter water tanks, at two tanks per site.

Continual Costs

$250 per day to rent 5 water tankers, including fuel costs and labor.
$400-$600 per day for fuel to run the generators to pump the water; fuel costs approximately $20 per liter, and the generators require 4 to 6 liters of fuel to pump 10,000 liters of water.
$2,000 per day to fill 5 10,000-liter water tanks
$40 per day to pay workers to pump the water from the well, transfer it to the local tanks, and buy fuel for and maintain the generators.

Precise costs subject to fluctuations in prices and availability.

How You Can Help

Funding the initial costs is crucial for getting this project off the ground, and once we get going, our daily budget can remain regular, even if costs change. This is why regular, monthly donations will be crucial to keeping Gaza Water Project going. We are committed to transparency, so we will document our work on social media and provide regular financial updates. The situation on the ground in Gaza changes very rapidly, but we are committed to ensuring people have easy access to sufficient potable water. It is the very least a person needs to survive.

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