connecting colony wastewater to Palestinian plants against the wishes of the Palestinian Water Authority – and proceeding with construction of the only water project Palestinians vetoed in the JWC.152 It also appropriates more from the Mountain Aquifer than it was allotted in the Accords, withdrawing more than the aquifer’s sustainable yield by over 50 percent. This has left Palestinians with access to only the remaining 13 percent,153 while in reality they are currently able to extract no more than ten percent.154 In July 2017 the PA and Israel reached a new water agreement that will increase the amount of water that Palestinians in the oPt can buy from Israel. Israel will extract water from the Red Sea and after filtering it in a desalination plant in Jordan, the water will be diverted to Israel, Jordan and the oPt.155 With the new agreement Israel will sell 32 MCM to the PA, 22 MCM will be for the West Bank for 3.3 shekel [$0.91] per cubic meter, and 10 MCM will be sent to the Gaza Strip for 3.2 shekel [$0.89] per cubic meter.156 Lack of Water Supply The discriminatory access to the aquifer and illegal exploitation of the aquifer has resulted in an insufficient water supply for Palestinians, forcing the PA to buy aquifer water from Mekorot, Israel’s national water company. The PA now relies on Mekorot for almost half of the West Bank’s domestic water, which it must purchase at a price set by the Israeli company.157 This amount is still far below the amount required by the population, more so as Mekorot reduces Palestinian supply by up to 50 percent in the summer in order to maintain comfortable water allocation to Israel and Israeli colonies.158 As Palestinians in the West Bank have a finite amount of water they receive per year, this means that the PA must 152 Id., 17-18. 153 EWASH, “EWASH concerned by water restrictions in the West Bank resulting from Israeli discriminatory policies,” press release, 21 June 2016, available at: http://www.ewash.org/sites/ default/files/inoptfiles/160621%20-%20EWASH%20PR-%20Water%20Restrictions%20West%20 Bank%20Result%20of%20Israeli%20Discriminatory%20Policies.pdf 154 EWASH, Water and Sanitation in Palestine, 2016, available at: http://www.ewash.org/sites/default/ files/inoptfiles/160314%20%20WATER%20AND%20SANITATION%20IN%20PALESTINE.pdf 155 Dalia Hatuqa, “Water deal tightens Israel’s control over Palestinians,” Al Jazeera, 1 August 2017, available at: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/water-deal-tightens-israelcontrol-palestinians-170730144424989.html 156 Ibid. 157 Elizabeth Koeth, Water for One People Only: Discriminatory Access and ‘Water-Apartheid’ in the OPT, al-Haq, 2013, 45, available at: http://www.alhaq.org/publications/Water-For-One-People-Only.pdf 158 Id., 48. 42