21km from Burqa]. I moved the animals there because I have collection wells there but here, there is no water so how can I water them? If I wanted to keep them here, I would need to bring water tanks every other day which would cost around 30 Jordanian Dinar [$42]. Keeping my animals is the only way I can earn a living so I can’t give them up, and I have eight children who depend on me to be able to afford to get married. The water company Mekorot sources the water from Beit Iba well [located in the West Bank] and it is controlled by Israel. Friend of A. Salah: They [Israel] only allow us 100 cubic meters a day and I know this because I used to work in the village council. When I worked at the council, one meter of water used to cost us eight shekel [$ 2.2], and then we would sell it to the people of Burqa for three shekel [$ 0.8]. This meant that all the revenue we received from other services and taxes would be used so that the residents of Burqa would be able to get water from Israel. This has led to young people leaving this village. Look at the situation my friend Abd al-Salam is in. His home is at the top of the village and he suffers a lot. He had to move all his sheep to another village (Atara) to survive; he had to because there is no water here. In Burqa, it is not only Abd al-Salam who suffers from the lack of water, you can find no less than 50 to 70 houses who live on the hills who are really suffering too. Look at the colonies; of course, this is an Israeli policy against us! All of the colonies have water 24 hours a day. Shafi Shamroun, which is the colony next to us, I am sure it gets 1000 cubic meters of water a day. If they wanted to give us enough water they could, but it’s clear that this is a policy the occupation uses against us. Everyone who gets married goes to work in Ramallah and eventually they go and live there too. Everyone is always saying that they can’t stand to live in Burqa when there is no water. Not to mention the ones who have left Palestine, and why? Because of this pressure!” A. Salah, Burqa, Nablus. Interview: 20 February 2017 In addition to systematic discriminatory allocation, Israel has engaged in a variety of practices to deny water access to individual Palestinian communities in the West Bank, particularly communities located in areas that Israel desires to appropriate for colony expansion or future annexation.167 The denial of permits for water projects, for example, extends to those 167 Amnesty International, Troubled Waters, 36-37, supra note 37. 44