Israel says no exceptions to Gaza siege unless hostages freed - eviltoast
  • medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    When you’re talking about getting food, fuel, and water to more than 2 million people, air drops are not going to be remotely sufficient. Convoys of full size trucks might not be enough. 2 to 3 liters of water per person per day adds up really fast.

    Edit: Just for fun, I looked up the capacity of tanker trucks to see how many they would need to get enough drinking water to the civilians in Gaza at a rate of 3 liters per person per day, assuming a population of 2.3 million and a tanker capacity of 60k liters. (Keep in mind, this does not account for water needed for hygiene or food preparation, etc.) It turns out that they would need to bring in 115 tanker trucks a day to keep the civilian population supplied with adequate drinking water. Or, y’know, Israel could turn the water back on.

    • mwguy@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      Damn, it really sucks that Has dig up water pipelines to turn into rockets at this point.