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To: maceng2 who wrote (14339)	12/21/2001 10:08:42 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

do you disagree with that view? :-) It's not for me to agree or disagree. They way I look at it, Iraq and Syria are totalitarian regimes, and Turkey is an elected government accountable to the welfare of its own people. So if the Turkish people want the water, they will get it. And Iraq and Syria can either pack sand, or declare war upon Turkey (which would kick BOTH of their butts). But I'm sure they would work something out without it coming to war. Btw, the aquifer under Israel and the West Bank is effectively an underground lake. But as they draw fresh water out of it, salt water from the Mediterrean Sea leaches in and permanently replaces the removed fresh water (since salt water is denser than fresh water). So in this case, unless that fresh water is replaced as rapidly as it's removed, it IS equivalent to pumping out oil. The only solution they'll have in the future is desalinization on a massive scale. And that's expensive for a country that doesn't possess the cheap fossil fuels to provide the energy needed for such an operation. Hawk