![]() ![]() Every civilization has diverted water to its own uses (without respect to nature), but the Soviets - citing perhaps their typical excuse that the ends (a proletarian paradise) justifies the means - took diversions and pollution to an extreme in implementing policies that disastrously damaged the Aral Sea.These under-ground policies match above-ground settlements in nationalist cruelty. Those wells - combined with Israeli controls over Palestinian wells (no new wells or repairs) - means that Israel has a de facto "apartheid" water policy that transfers Palestinian water to Israelis and deprives Palestinian people and farmers of the water they could use for their own living and economic activities. Israel may not have any wells in the West Bank, but their wells on the border of the West Bank draw water from the Mountain Aquifer that underlies both Israel and the West Bank.Higher prices that reflect water scarcity will reduce demand for that product. ![]() These will raise the price of traded goods (food, textiles, etc.). Along the same lines, note that the solution to high "virtual water" consumption is NOT to stop international trade but to make sure that virtual-water-exporting countries have sustainable management practices in place. ![]() Instead, they are growing alfalfa to feed to cows for milk (arg!).
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