Can a Desert Nation Solve the World's Water Shortage?
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From California to Africa, we are facing a global water shortage. But one tiny country, in the middle of a desert, has found remarkable solutions. Which country? And can we replicate its success? Businessman and New York Times bestselling author Seth Siegel explains. Donate today to PragerU: http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h Read Seth Siegel's New York Times bestseller, "Let There Be Water": http://l.prageru.com/2el6beN Join Prager United to get new swag every quarter, exclusive early access to our videos, and an annual TownHall phone call with Dennis Prager! http://l.prageru.com/2c9n6ys Join PragerU's text list to have these videos, free merchandise giveaways and breaking announcements sent directly to your phone! https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageru You can support PragerU by clicking here: https://www.classy.org/checkout/donation?eid=60079. Free videos are great, but to continue producing high-quality content, contributions--even small ones--are a must! Do you shop on Amazon? Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. Same great products. Same low price. Shopping made meaningful. VISIT PragerU! http://www.prageru.com FOLLOW us! PragerU is on Snapchat! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prageru Twitter: https://twitter.com/prageru Instagram: https://instagram.com/prageru/ JOIN PragerFORCE! For Students: http://l.prageru.com/2aozfkP Sponsor a Student: http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2ht JOIN our Educators Network! http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2y9 Script: Is the world going into a water crisis? It certainly seems that way. The U.S. government predicts that by 2025, 60 percent of the world’s landmass, and 40 of our 50 U.S. states will experience water shortages— some of them extreme. The U.S. intelligence community sees worldwide water shortages as a major national security risk. Water scarcity helped trigger the Syrian civil war and has been a key reason why Africans have migrated in large numbers to Europe. More of this can be expected. But there is cause for optimism. And it comes from a very unlikely place—a country in the middle of a desert. That country is Israel. Compelled by necessity and powered by remarkable technological innovations, Israel has become the world’s water superpower. By reusing waste water, by making desalination affordable, by rethinking irrigation, and by developing an array of sophisticated water conservation techniques, Israel not only has a sufficiency of water, but an abundance of it. What Israel has done, other nations can do, too, including its Mideast neighbors. And while it’s a lot to hope for, cooperation on water issues could become the basis for cooperation on other issues as well. For Israel, an obsession with water is not new. The word “water” appears 600 times in the Hebrew Bible. For over 2,000 years daily prayers for rain in the land of Israel have been a part of traditional Jewish ritual. For the founders of the modern State of Israel, water was not only a daily concern, but a paramount question of future survival. Vast quantities of water would be needed for the millions of immigrants who would make their way to the new country. Without plenty of water, economic growth would be impossible. But where was the water going to come from? It was a daunting challenge, but one which Israel overcame. Today, while other nations, even ones with far more natural water resources, struggle with water management, Israel has a surplus of useable water. The desert, as Israel’s founders dreamed, is blooming. Not only does the country supply its own population with an array of fruits and vegetables, but it exports billions of dollars worth of produce to nations around the world. So, how does a small country with little annual rainfall, with only one freshwater lake, and with no major rivers do this? It begins with a nothing-wasted attitude that extends from the government to private industry to farming to consumers. Israel charges its citizens the market price for water—no subsidies. You can have as much water as you want, but you have to pay for it. And when you pay for something, you tend to be more careful with how you use it. To view the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/environmental-science/can-desert-nation-solve-worlds-water-shortage
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Every time this guy says Israel take a shot of your favorite hard drink. By the end of the video the ones who can still walk, wins.
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How to end wars...
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The single largest desalination project is Ras Al-Khair in Saudi Arabia, which produced 1,025,000 cubic meters per day in 2014 they must have stolen the technology from the Israelis
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Jews have been famous for many things including water innovation, kibbuts (communistic villages which use merit capitalism), creation of two more sprouting religions which dominate the world and the relative amount of new ideas that sprouted all the modern philosophies into action, including a true representative democracy, which compares to its zeal for religion. I wonder why self-claimed capitalist corporations supported Germany in secret. I already know the answer. They coalitioned against their jewish rivals.
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Desalination shouldn't have to be an option
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Prager U is awesome but Canada is the worlds water superpower.
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so 80% of household water comes from desalination. that's great when a country borders an ocean. what about all those countries that are land locked?
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I like Israel as much as the next guy, but it's starting to feel like every other video from PragerU was made to praise Israel.
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*Palestine
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"Werder?"
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A "Desert Nation"? come on....
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I love Israel so much it's acc insane
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This channel makes wild claims. Israel did not invent drip irrigation. Drip irrigation has been around for 1000+ years, while Israel has been around for >100 years.
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When I lived in the west, I learned to conserve water and be wise. When I moved back to the mid-weest. Chicago I brought with me this concern. I am so glad that I did. Who knew bottled water, wow. what a concept. Yet it happened. We need to teach our children now in school from kindergarten on to be water careful and water wise. Who knew. Well know we Do. God Bless and be water Wise. Love, Carl
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sry? we in argentina use the sewage treatment since a long timee ago ,and gues what ? we have the 2nd biggest natural udergeround water source, and we have mountains that give us all the water that we need, so better check that before saying "the only in the world" ty
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World's "water superpower"? Rather world's CRIME superpower! Did you know that Israel is a safe haven for rapists, pimps, child traffickers and all the world's worst scum? Did you know that they will never be prosecuted in Israel as long as their victims are not Jewish? Funny to see some Jewish-Americans funding BlackLivesMatter in the US while they support the execution without trial of non-Jews, blatant racism, and broad ethnic cleansing back in Israel! And by the way, with a whopping $6 billion (!) of annual aid to Israel, they better invent something and bring it to the US free-of-charge!
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I used to be a quite left democrat, and when I viewed this channel I had some much "triggered" moments in rage of obvious fact. Now I consider my self much more right (although still quite moderate). I agree with around 70% of what this channel says, especial regarding Israel. The antisemitism that occurs on US campuses (and its subsequent funding by the Muslim brotherhood and Hamas) is atrocious, and I'm glad to see at least one channel on Youtube take a definitive side with them.
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Need drives innovation. Israel is in a desert, so they needed water. Then they innovated solutions to have more water.
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Why was it Israel that first developed and utilized drip irrigation, desalination plants, etc. and not another country? Did it have more resources?
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Israel isn't as dry as desert, there is enough rain to collect water and it's easy to get water by the sea
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