Water Is Not Political

Radio Atlantic

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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How has the cease-fire changed water access in Gaza? And what does it mean when the people in charge of keeping the water flowing are displaced? Host Hanna Rosin talks with Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic’s executive producer of audio, who reports on her visit with water worker Marwan Bardawil, who is now a Gazan refugee living in Egypt. Read more about Marwan Bardawil’s journey: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/gaza-needs-clean-water/681583/ Listen to our previous Radio Atlantic episode with Marwan: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/11/the-man-working-to-keep-the-water-on-in-gaza/675877/ Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	With every day that goes by, the ceasefire in Gaza, if we can even still call it that, seems increasingly fragile.
1:15.4	Arab countries have offered a plan American diplomats met with Hamas.
1:19.5	But so far, no agreement and no consensus.
1:24.0	For the people in Gaza, survival is getting harder by the day.
1:28.6	About a week ago, Israel once again cut off power,
1:32.3	which is important because there are still 2 million people living in Gaza,
1:37.1	and power helps bring them clean water.
1:40.1	And clean water helps keep them alive.
1:45.4	I'm Hannah Rosen, and this is Radio Atlantic.
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