Another dry winter on the way?
I've mentioned many times how we've not had enough rainfall for the past several years. In fact, I've even told you how we opened the pipes at the bottom of our sinks, put a bucket underneath and collect the water for use in flushing the toilets.This past winter was one of average rainfall after five straight years of below average rainfall. The current forecast is that the coming winter - or at least the first half of the coming winter - will be drier than any of the previous six years.
According to American and European forecasts for the first part of winter, this year could be worse than the previous six years, Water Authority spokesman Uri Schor elaborated to The Jerusalem Post on the sidelines of the conference.Read the whole thing.
The forecasts only cover the first half of winter, so the outlook for the entire season is not clear, he said.
Rainfall last year hovered around average but the numbers from the previous five years were well below that mark.
Schor marveled that the country had managed to meet demand, calling it “almost a miracle.”
The good news is that maybe another dry winter in which we struggle to meet demand will make our stupid government think again about giving away our water resources to the 'Palestinians' and the Syrians.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:58 PM
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Israel is exactly the right size to be demo-ing new desalination technologies. Along the coast, powered by innovative solar or natural gas from your newly discovered resources (with CO2 captured and used for plant food in high tech green houses - maybe multi-story greenhouses on the outside of city buildings along the coast). Israel is on the beach so, like California, those of us in landlocked dry areas can't sympathize too much with the problem. There's enough for everybody and any lack at this point (including in California) is due to lack of will and lack of finance methods that can't be strangled by politicians. E.g., whatever happened to the type of special assessment district that we used to have in the early 80's where an area's residents could combine their resources to build a wastewater plant, collection lines, etc. This water issue is solvable, other than with buckets for flushing!
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