Background
The communities in the Jordan Valley are among the poorest in Palestine. It starts to get very hot as early as March, and it can still be warm until October. Due to inadequate electricity supply and power cuts, schools cannot use air conditioners, if they are available at all. Therefore, students have to stay out all day in their hot and small classrooms and have problems concentrating. Some of them are absent during the very hot summer months due to school conditions and are unable to repeat the entire curriculum, resulting in them not passing all exams.
The Palestinian territories and the entire Jordan Valley are facing a water crisis, and the population of Palestine is suffering from severe water shortages on a massive scale. Conventional groundwater and surface water sources are increasingly threatened by industrial and natural pollution. To solve the problem, alternative sources of water must be sought. These include rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse, and desalination.