Gaza: Environmental and health disaster

Ensuring people can have access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities is vital in any crisis. Watch this interview with Monther Shublak, Director of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility on the impacts of the Gaza conflict in July and August 2014 to explain what actions they took to provide vital water supplies. Interview held and filmed by Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene group (EWASH), a coalition of 27 organisations working in the water and sanitation sector in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Read more from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) here.