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To: SilentZ who wrote (165813)	3/26/2003 7:26:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584288

Certainly the WB acquifer won't solve all of their problems, and Israel has enough purchasing power to buy what they need, if they can't produce it. Well, Israel does try to hog water, but not because they're selfish. It's because they're very concerned with the way their neighbors use it. Israel gets roughly ten times (yes, you read correctly) the amount of potable water per unit volume of water it draws from the sources around it that its neighbors do, because it's painstakingly efficient. It has a very hard time letting others take the water, as they know much of it is being wasted. That's why there was nearly a war a couple of months ago when Lebanon began taking water from the Hazbani River, which runs through the country and into the Golan. Israelis also consume 5 times the water per person than the Palestinians. Consequently, they are constantly pressed with the issue of water shortage. ted