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Over and drought: Why the end of Israel's water shortage is a secret [desalination creates surplus]
haaretz.com ^ | January 24, 2014 | Yuval Elizur

Posted on 02/01/2014 9:46:38 AM PST by grundle

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Israel didn’t invent trickle irrigation or hydroponics, but has worked on both more than anyone; at one time Israel was a net exporter of water insofar as it grew fruit for European produce markets. As the population grew and especially after the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan (which requires Israel to make up a certain amount of water shortfall in Jordan, a shortfall engineered by everyone’s favorite hereditary dictatorship in Syria), Israel reduced its fresh fruit exports and looked for sources from outside the country.

Israel would have even more water, but also supplies water to the Gazan parasite:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2706/is_israel_really_to_blame_for_gaza_s_water_shortages

Since 1967 there had been talk about trading the Sinai for a canal to bring Nile water to Israel — an idea condemned by Sudan, which threatened rather unrealistically to cut off Nile water to Egypt. The so-called Peace Canal was one of the big projects during the Mubarak years, and that led to a large conduit getting dug under the Suez Canal and an open-air canal heading east along the Med coast toward El-Arish.

Thanks grundle.


41 posted on 02/01/2014 7:48:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Israel

Israel Desalination Enterprises’ Sorek Desalination Plant in Palmachim is to provide up to 26,000 m³ of potable water per hour (2.300 m³ p.a.). At full capacity, it will be the largest desalination plant of its kind in the world.[95]

The Hadera seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in Israel is the largest of its kind in the world.[96][97] The project was developed as a build–operate–transfer by a consortium of two Israeli companies: Shikun and Binui, and IDE Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Israel


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