Isreali export water technology for use in the desert, so why don't we at least consider it

.An article in the Arizona Republic entitled … ISRAELI FIRMS EXPORT WATER SYSTEM … ought to be rallying cry for all agriculture in the southwest in particular. The technology utilized by the Israeli’s is “the right stuff” that we ought to consider adopting and possibly mandating for agriculture in the arid southwest.

What’s stopping us…? Well how about a powerful corporate ag lobbying effort backed up with million$ to place as many artificial obstacles as possible in our effort to bring such a change about.

In the southwest ag water is artificially priced less than the same water from the Colorado River system, for example, that water sold and utilized by you and me. Why is that…? Answer…follow the $$$.

Moreover, as we have been brainwashed to believe water is a commodity as opposed to part of the “commons” we no longer see or feel any moral imperative to converse – water. Oh, yea, we’ll use “conserve” when it proves financially useful, but we really don’t want to embrace the implications of conservation.

We … talk the talk, but we don’t walk the walk …It’s all about profit … but at whose expense…? We really do not want to factor in all the externalities associated with our profit and greed oriented use of water.