You may know that a number of North African and Middle Eastern countries rely on desalinated seawater for their fresh water supply. (This, and it sounds like a joke but it isn't, is part of why the West was so keen to kill Gaddafi and destroy Libya: under Gaddafi, Libya maintained a thousand-year supply of fresh water. That water now belongs to Nestlé.)
Gaza's inland water, as you would imagine, is now either gone or horribly unsafe, and though we don't have numbers yet, waterborne illness in the Strip is going to get absolutely harrowing, if it isn't already. But Amjad, in his roving, has come across a desalination unit, to make drinkable water from the readily available seawater, and though it's partly broken, Amjad is a trained engineer knows how to fix it. I'll put it in his words:
You can help him get the water flowing here: https://chuffed.org/project/125154-humanitarian-appeal-help-my-family-survive-genocide-war-in-gaza
And can imagine what a source of clean water would mean here, and not just for thirst, but for medical use, for cleaning wounds and instruments, for avoiding disease, for not being forced into constant relocation because there's no water.
Whatever else the world means, or is supposed to mean, whatever else you know or can never know, understand or will never understand – water for people with no water is as real as reality gets. You'll never need to doubt what it "meant."
Thank you all, kindly, and I promised Amjad I'd thank you for him too –
MSJ
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