On 12/29/2010 5:35 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
It's not a drought if it's been ongoing for decades, it's climate.
Oh, well, climate or drought, drought or climate... Who cares?! The /real issue/ is that there is no rain (*) and water prices are climbing up rapidly...
For some reason I thought Israel was so short of natural water resources from many years ago that they got most of their water from desalinization of sea water.
I would be somewhat embarrassed to elaborate on this one.
I'm pretty sure Israelis are the world leaders in desalinization technology. They use it to provide for both human consumption and irrigation.
I'm pretty sure you're shouldn't be (pretty sure).
The source of the scarcity seems to be the population in Israel is growing faster than the necessary facilities to provide water can be built.
And some other factors /wink/... (*) But it used to be... Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
