Samaria in a sewage stalemate

03.02.2012                      10.Schwat. 5772

Umwelt:

Samaria in a sewage stalemate

All but one of 22 Palestinian villages refuse connection to sewage line, Environmental Protection Ministry says.

Swirling in the strikingly green valley below the southern Samaria community of Nofim is a rambling stream amid grass and trees – filled with dangerous quantities of sewage.
A subterranean sewage pipe connects to the underbellies of four of the five surrounding settlements – Nofim, Yakir, Etz Ephraim and Sha’arei Tikva – and will within a few months also connect to that of Ma’aleh Shomron, bringing all of the effluent to a treatment facility in Eliyahu….