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Read the Book "Water..." by Solomon
Reader comment on item: The Middle East Runs out of Water
Submitted by Bob Heltman (United States), May 9, 2015 at 08:58
Hydrologist Steven Solomon writes extensively on the relationship of fresh water to civilization all around the world in Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. Well worth reading.
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| Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. [23 words] | ken volz | Jan 11, 2016 09:35 | 227575 | ||
| 4 | Lake Urmia [101 words] | Doramin | Jun 14, 2015 12:45 | 223813 | |
| 2 | Easy Fix. [17 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Dan | Jun 11, 2015 10:09 | 223767 |
| 1 | Middle East Running out of Water [129 words] | Prashant | Jun 1, 2015 17:09 | 223616 | |
| 1 | Islam and Water [65 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Bill | May 31, 2015 22:12 | 223612 | |
| Updating models [43 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 14, 2015 19:20 | 223356 | ||
| 1 | More Than Slightly Obnoxious Question Called For [170 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Alex | May 13, 2015 21:20 | 223344 | |
| Grateful Islam [64 words] | PermReader | May 13, 2015 09:32 | 223332 | ||
 they want the lot [45 words] | Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah | May 15, 2015 05:37 | 223332 | ||
| sea/land relative levels for Egypt, et al. pending reversal±? [25 words] | Don B | May 12, 2015 18:29 | 223330 | ||
| Gaza engineer seeks solution to water woes [30 words] | PezDispenser | May 12, 2015 13:12 | 223328 | ||
| 5 | history repeats itself and Israel must be ready [543 words] | David Meir-Levi | May 12, 2015 03:38 | 223324 |
| 2 | Future water wars [65 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | SantaMoniker | May 11, 2015 07:11 | 223311 | |
| A little misleading [84 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Tyler | May 11, 2015 05:37 | 223309 | ||
| 5 | Cataclysm awaits [337 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | blert | May 10, 2015 19:58 | 223298 |
| 2 | It's Kind of Cruel, but .. [271 words] | Ron Thompson | May 10, 2015 14:29 | 223293 | |
| 1 | Droughts are prophesied for the last days. [255 words] | Michael S | May 11, 2015 02:51 | 223293 | |
| 2 | A Problem with Monotheism, or just one branch of it? [469 words] | Ron Thompson | May 16, 2015 14:40 | 223293 | |
| The motivation behind wars [2262 words] | Michael S | May 26, 2015 16:23 | 223293 | ||
| Sectarianism, God and the world's problems [1133 words] | Michael S | Oct 2, 2015 03:43 | 223293 | ||
| 2 | Water in the Middle East [20 words] | Richard_One | May 10, 2015 13:09 | 223292 | |
| 3 | It's not going to work.... [44 words] | Jon, a Brit in Euroland | May 10, 2015 10:47 | 223290 | |
| 1 | Demographic collapse [341 words] | Michael S | May 11, 2015 20:23 | 223290 | |
| 2 | Looming Threats due to Scarcity of Water in the Middle East [129 words] | Ali H. Alyami, CDHR | May 9, 2015 22:22 | 223273 | |
| 3 | water [8 words] | randy | May 9, 2015 15:08 | 223266 | |
| 6 | One More Trigger for Region-wide Violence [198 words] | Jim Wherry | May 9, 2015 13:19 | 223265 |
| 1 | educational problem. A question of choices. [78 words] | Veronica van Bruggen | May 9, 2015 09:12 | 223258 | |
| 2 |  Read the Book "Water..." by Solomon [30 words] | Bob Heltman | May 9, 2015 08:58 | 223257 | |
| 4 | Solution to the Middle East war [44 words] | Jeanette Jonas | May 9, 2015 05:34 | 223255 | |
| 5 | No water shortage in Israel [125 words] | Steven Sherman | May 9, 2015 02:30 | 223252 |
| 1 | Revelations [39 words] | Sunshine | May 8, 2015 23:29 | 223249 | |
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| 2 | Tough love [86 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Sunshine | May 8, 2015 21:46 | 223246 | |
| 2 | KHAT [138 words] | Sunshine | May 10, 2015 01:21 | 223246 | |
| 5 | Water crisis:Iran [68 words] | FatherJon | May 8, 2015 21:26 | 223245 | |
| 1 | Water as Source for Life - The Eternal Sovereign is the SOURCE for Rivers of Living Water [199 words] | M. Tovey | May 11, 2015 13:27 | 223245 | |
| 5 | Will they die rather than make peace and learn? My bias is towards death...the clerics will have all the water they need. [19 words] | Gary Mullennic | May 8, 2015 21:11 | 223244 |