This paper examines the daily impacts of water inaccessibility and contamination on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza, widely deemed a water crisis. By focusing on 1992 (one year prior to the start of the Oslo process) to the present, I evaluate why the Joint Water Committee—the water management body created under Article 40 of the Oslo Accords II in 1995 and designed to temporarily function for five years—is failing to meet its mandate to provide equitable and safe water access for both Palestinians and Israelis. The Israeli Occupation facilitates what scholar Mark Zeitoun calls “hydro-hegemony” or “hydrological apartheid”—the Israeli state exploits its position as the Occupying Power in order to dominate Palestinian water resources, violating international water law. Diversion of West Bank water to settlements leaves 50,000 people with the minimum water levels recommended by the World Health Organization for “short-term survival in an emergency situation.” Only 25% of Gazans currently have daily access to running water, and Gaza’s sole aquifer will be damaged beyond repair by 2020 as climate change increases drought in the Strip. This paper fills a critical gap in the study of the Occupation by providing an up-to-date analysis of the Occupation specifically through the lens of water access. Building on the work of scholars such as Eyal Weizman, Neve Gordon, Sara Roy, and Jan Selby, this paper presents the most viable methods to mitigate looming water catastrophe, while ensuring these interim solutions are complementary to ending the Occupation—ultimately the sustainable resolution to the water crisis. The paper draws on my ethnographic interviews with West Bank civilians (East Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron), and my interviews with JWC, UNRWA, Palestinian Water Authority, and Israeli Water Commission representatives in January 2015 and summer 2015.