The construction and completion of a billion-dollar new middle-class Palestinian city of Rawabi in the West Bank is slowed and delayed for years while the Israeli government withholds access to basic water supplies. The delay is due, in part, to a larger dispute over the actions of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee. In March 2015, the supply of water to Rawabi is finally approved. However, the supply is only sufficient for the 640 families that currently live there; far less than what will be needed for the 25,000 residents that the city will eventually house.
