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A Bedouin boy is waiting by a water tank in the unrecognised village of Adba, in the Negev Region of Israel. Water is stored in tanks, and there are daily problems in providing fresh and drinkable water for the residents of unrecognised villages. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..