I have lived in New York City for 12 years now and I still cannot get used to the New York paranoia. They are very nervous people.

I am scheduled to return to Israel permanently in 2009 but each time I do I see how relaxed we really are. As an Israeli I am always so relived that we are the the way we are compared to NYC.

I was raised on a kibbutz and for a few years directed the drip irrigation method we used. Kibbutzniks have always been conservation minded in mindand deed with water. It is the wasteful city people that need to pay attention.

Tel Aviv is a wonderful city, better and nicer than New York City, but people think that everything is just “made” and is always available.

Not so. But again Nicky I recommend not to worry….. Shalom.

Or Israel can go hardcore into desalination. Waiting until the lake runs out of water is obviously foolish. Of course it will happen. At least this should be the thinking when planning water management policy. Plan for the worst and then factor in known risks, a buffer, and then like IT projects double or triple it. That is what the reality will be.

Also cut off the water to Hamas. Let them make their own desalination plants (cough cough)…

But seriously. Just because Israel’s had water problems before now, doesn’t mean that things aren’t serious now.
I know this is a country that likes to fix things at the last mintue with a bit of a glue and a piece of string, but still…

Projections about running out of water have been heard before in Israel.

Israel is not Europe or the UK and not the US. It is Israel, in the mid-east and worry is not a natural cultural phenomenon.

And even if it is correct what can anyone do? Nothing. Conserving water will only adjust things slighty because the rate of evaporation is the same and so…..

Dont worry.