Hope Through Water Harvesting in Palestine
With a new cistern built with Palestine-Westbank 2 program support, Hisham, a farmer in the West Bank, will be able to plant 55 new grape vines, increasing his overall production of vegetables, fruit trees and grapes by five times. Because the new cistern was built in the dry summer months, it has yet to be filled by next winter’s rains. However, Hisham has already prepared it with a system of pipes to capture rainwater from the roof of his modest two-room dwelling.