Commentary
Mankind’s most useful environmental improvement would be to increase clean, fresh water supplies. Only 0.4 percent of the world’s water is available fresh water. Doubling that fresh water supply would vastly improve the quality of life on Earth and increase our ability to adjust to global cooling and warming cycles. Droughts could be a thing of the past.
Over the next 50 to 100 years, hundreds of millions or even billions of people may die due to lack of fresh water and the secondary famine, poor sanitation, dehydration, and associated illnesses.
Israel has gone from a barren desert to a thriving country that exports water and food to Jordan, Egypt, and elsewhere. Its 170-mile coastline has five desalinization plants. Their water system provides excess water for its population of 9 million.
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