There’s another side to this.
Israel became water independent. They now use desalinated water for agriculture.
What they did portends the biggest agricultural revolution since the neolithic revolution 10000 years ago—(according to some israeli technologist. imho desalination is just one of roughly 5-6 neolithic scale agricultural revolutions). Desalinated water will be cheap enough for agriculture in every desert on earth. It going to happen. The saudis just signed a deal for solar power where they get electricity for under .02@kwh. that’s the lowest cost of electricity in history.
That’s very close to making desalination cheap enough for agriculture.
The saudis all know this. They know that when they can farm all their deserts—nothing nothing nothing at about radical islam means anything. anything at all.
all they have to do is wait for the technology to be developed for them.
“The saudis just signed a deal for solar power where they get electricity for under .02@kwh.”
Got a link for that? Thanks.