Water Management: Turning a Problem into a Solution

Too often, the urgent overwhelms the important. Israeli media have recently focused on the Iranian nuclear program, primaries in the Kadima party, the American presidential campaign, and the fiasco of the “Global March to Jerusalem,” worthy topics all. Yet all the attention paid to these urgent matters has crowded out the critically important issue of water. Water is its own metaphor. Just as the unnoticed flow of underground streams can undermine the foundations of a house, unless we organize to manage this vital resource, water may play a destabilizing role in the 21st Century

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