A new UNICEF seawater desalination plant is providing safe tap water to southern Gaza Strip ⊠In January, UNICEF and partners completed the construction of a âŹ10 million seawater desalination plant funded by the European Union. It will initially produce 6,000 cubic metres of safe drinking water a day, providing it to 75,000 people living in the southern Gaza Strip â about 35,000 people in Khan Younis and 40,000 people in Rafah. âŠ. June Kunugi, UNICEF State of Palestine Special Representative, still remembers the day she arrived at the site of construction of the plant in April 2013. âAll I saw was just an empty stretch of land,â she says. âToday the plant has [âŠ] A new UNICEF seawater desalination plant is providing safe tap water to southern Gaza StripDME GmbH2017-04-07T15:05:12+02:00