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Dear Howard my friend! The Arab populations since the seventies have at least doubled! Please realise this, and that irrigation projects in these circumstances cannot remain at the stage they were at the seventies. Also, Howard, the Palestinian population has also doubled about every twenty years or so, and the main problem the Palestinians have is actually a lack of water, as they also need to have new settlements no less than the Jews and Egyptians do, and many another population in the area and also elsewhere on this planet! Water is needed mainly for agriculture and for cattle, drinking water makes up only a small percentage of water-needs world-wide, not to mention water used for washing and for industry. And as each year goes by, millions more people add to the Arab populations through birth increase.
To give you another example, a week ago the news was broadcasting that seven million people in Niger risk hunger and thirst through lack of rain!
Howard, my proposal is wise and realistic, and it is not good to remain fossilised at old achievements dating back to the seventies when the population in the world was half of what it is now, and a quarter of what is estimated in thirty years time!
I will keep up my intent and proposal for an academy of research into agriculture and irrigation world-wide!