Expecting Drought

The climate change is here. We are in the fifth year of lower than average rainfall. Another desalination plant is being planned near the Lochamey HaGhetaot kibbutz. A large publicity campaign is being prepared for next March: Save Water. We shall manage, but the neighbors cannot. Will the Jordanians start a war if the price of the water in Amman increases? I don't think so. But our stupid leadership believes that revolutions are caused by poverty, hunger, drought. On the contrary, poverty is caused by revolutions and wars. Pic.: A tanker truck illegally takes water from a river in Jordan. (Image credit: Steven Gorelick)  We can be sure that widespread water penury in the neighboring countries will cause unbearable international pressure on Israel to give up its little water. In the best of the cases we will be seen as selfish and inhuman, in the worst case we will blamed for the penury of the Arabs.