Strategic Water Resources and Transmission Plan.

This Strategic Water Resources and Transmission Plan is a sectoral document prepared to implement the National Water and Wastewater Policy and Strategy for Palestine 2013 - 2032 and it is focused on the public water supply for the West Bank. The Water Policy includes the estimated water demands for public use, (domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial etc.) and agricultural for both Gaza and the West Bank and the proposed options to meet these demands. However in the West Bank the proposed resources are not necessarily in the same region and the responsibility for the allocation of those resources, the staged implementation of the development of those resources, and the planning and implementation of the infrastructure to deliver those resources needs to be included as a National Plan to ensure that the objectives of the Strategy are met. This Plan will be considered as a guidance document for any future master plans in the West Bank. The main strategic objectives of the Plan are (i) the development of a stage plan of the water resources included in the strategy over the lifetime of the plan showing their location and anticipated volumes; (ii) the development of a plan for the inter-Governorate transmission infrastructure required to deliver those resources to a location where they would become the responsibility of a regional service provider to deliver supply to its customers; (iii) the development of a detailed transmission plan that can be taken to outline design by others.
The Plan presents the different proposals for the development of the water resources to be dedicated to the various uses, listed for the different Governorates, taking into account that the sources to be developed first, represent a combination of the cheapest to abstract and easiest to deliver to their point of use. The additional future resources to be developed are from four main sources namely the purchased water, the development of groundwater resources, water harvesting and desalination. The development of groundwater wells means both drilling of new wells or rehabilitation of existing ones. Other solutions are (i) the reallocation of the water resources between the districts with excess water supply and those with water deficit or the reallocation a certain quantity from one sector to another; (ii) the development of all needed conveyance between the different water resources development to maximize the freedom of conveying water between the different governorates by building the conveyance lines that are needed.