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This week on Radio Atlantic, we talk to Marwan Bardawil about Gaza's dire water situation

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Marwan Bardawil has worked to grow and stabilize the water sector in Gaza for nearly 30 years .

He recently moved his family out of Gaza and over to Egypt , where our executive producer, Claudine Ebeid , caught up with him to learn more about what leaving meant for him and for the future of water.

Water was never a sure thing in Gaza before the war.

The average person in Gaza was getting around 80 liters of water a day.

By the summer of 2024 , almost every connection point, every desalination plant, every sewage station had either been totally destroyed or had sustained some amount of damage.

Claudine Ebeid : Marwan has been working on water infrastructure in Gaza for 30 years .

She says the water situation in Gaza has improved since the end of the war.

She talks to Marwan about the future of Gaza 's water infrastructure.

After the cease-fire, Israel cut off the electricity to a desalination plant this week , she says.