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2011-02-21 Arabia

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Posted by Bobby 2011-02-21 09:38|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 This is actually a good idea, but as always incompetance and corruption (and incompetant corruption) will interfere with implementation.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-02-21 11:10|| 2011-02-21 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 If it is anything like their irrigation and farming schemes, it will be a disaster.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-02-21 17:06|| 2011-02-21 17:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed, they ran their biggest freshwater aquifer dry growing wheat they could import for next to nothing.

Posted by phil_b 2011-02-21 18:08|| 2011-02-21 18:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Indeed, they ran their biggest freshwater aquifer dry growing wheat they could import for next to nothing.

You don't understand. Water doesn't come from aquifers. It comes from Allah. Allah will provide for the faithful. Or something like that.

This is a lot like the Chinese growing trees in the arid areas in hopes that this will make these areas less arid. Draining aquifers seems to be viewed as the solution to desertification among believers and atheists. Marx only knows why.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 21:14|| 2011-02-21 21:14|| Front Page Top

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