Thursday, January 31, 2013

For Israel, droughts go down the drain | The Times of Israel

For Israel, droughts go down the drain | The Times of Israel: After years of constantly being urged to conserve water, the National Water Authority announced Tuesday that Israelis no longer need to fear droughts and that the country’s water worries are essentially over.

The solution for the longstanding problem comes not from the clouds, which have provided generous amounts of rainfall this winter, but primarily from the sea — and the desalination technology that enables transforming its waters into something you can drink.