By Seth M. Siegel
New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller!
As each day brings pressing studies of becoming water shortages world wide, there's no time to lose within the look for solutions.
The U.S. govt predicts that 40 of our fifty states-and 60 percentage of the earth's land surface-will quickly face alarming gaps among on hand water and the becoming call for for it. with no motion, meals costs will upward push, financial development will sluggish, and political instability is probably going to follow.
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can function a version for the us and international locations all over the place by means of exhibiting the right way to blunt the worst of the arriving water calamities. inspite of 60 percentage of its kingdom made up of wasteland, Israel has not just solved its water challenge; it additionally had an abundance of water. Israel even offers water to its neighbors-the Palestinians and the dominion of Jordan-every day.
Based on meticulous learn and 1000s of interviews, Let There Be Water reveals the tools and methods of the usually offbeat inventors who enabled Israel to steer the realm in state-of-the-art water technology.
Let There Be Water also tells unknown tales of the way cooperation on water structures can forge diplomatic ties and advertise solidarity. Remarkably, no longer in the past, now-hostile Iran depended on Israel to regulate its water platforms, and entry to Israel's water information helped to hot China's frosty kin with Israel.
Beautifully written, Let There Be Water is and encouraging account of the imaginative and prescient and sacrifice by way of a kingdom and folks that experience lengthy made water safety a best precedence. regardless of scant normal water assets, a speedily turning out to be inhabitants and economic climate, and infrequently antagonistic buddies, Israel has continuously jumped sooner than the water innovation-curve to guarantee a dynamic, very important destiny for itself. each city, each nation, and each reader can reap the benefits of studying what Israel did to beat daunting demanding situations and rework itself from a parched land right into a water superpower.
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He is also, philosophically, a supporter of free markets and not fond of government intrusion. Still, he says, Israel is “a Western country and we embrace the idea of individualism here. But there are some areas where the kibbutz [collective] approach makes the most sense. ”33 Israelis have accepted a trade-off. They have surrendered private ownership and the benefits of a market economy in water for a system that offers universal access to high-quality water. The public gives the government the power to manage, regulate, price, and allocate water in its name with the belief that the common good will be the greatest beneficiary.
Israeli nursery rhyme AYA MIRONI, NOW in her thirties, remembers bath time when she was a little girl. As soon as she was toweled off and in her pajamas, her mother would return to the bathtub with a plastic bucket, and fill it with the water still in the tub. Her mother would carry the bucket outside to their small yard and water the flowers and other plants with the still soapy water. She would return to the bathroom, refill the bucket, and repeat the procedure several more times. If you didn’t know that this was taking place in an upper-middle-class community in Israel, you might have thought it was in a poor village in a developing country.
Two THE NATIONAL WATER CARRIER Water to the country is like blood to a human being. 1 While the British largely achieved their goal, the White Paper had an unintended effect: It led to new thinking by the Zionists about how to manage the nation’s water for the broadest benefit, culminating almost exactly twenty-five years later in June 1964 in Israel’s National Water Carrier. The National Water Carrier was a feat of imagination and daring, requiring engineering innovation and a variety of financing vehicles, including one that led to riots and deep divisions that took years to heal.