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If Iran wants to starve the world, let them drink sand.
#7 | Posted by rf4b

Desalination currently provides a very small fraction"roughly 3%"of Iran's potable water, and only about 0.2% of its total overall water consumption. Unlike neighboring Gulf states that depend on it for up to 90% of their supply, Iran still relies primarily on traditional rivers, reservoirs, and heavily depleted underground aquifers.

You're an idiot

Meanwhile
Approximately 90 percent of Kuwait's drinking and residential water comes from desalination.
Desalination provides 59 percent of Bahrain's total national water supply, a figure that jumps to over 90 percent (and up to nearly 100 percent) specifically for drinking and municipal water needs
Approximately 42 percent of the United Arab Emirates' overall drinking and potable water comes from desalination plants, according to official government data. The remainder of the country's broader water supply relies heavily on natural groundwater and treated wastewater
Approximately 70% of Saudi Arabia's drinking water comes from desalination, though desalination accounts for about 18% to 60% of its total overall water consumption depending on whether agriculture and heavy industrial use are included. The country relies heavily on this infrastructure managed by the Saudi Water Authority (formerly SWCC).
Desalination accounts for approximately 85% to 90% of Israel's municipal (drinking) water supply. This is generated by five major Mediterranean coastal plants (Ashkelon, Palmachim, Hadera, Sorek, and Ashdod) and numerous smaller brackish groundwater plants in the Arava region

Like I said, you're a idiot

Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, "Lawns":

youtu.be

Piano and fretless bass. Couple is married. If nothing else, check out Carla Bley's hair. The Don King of jazz composers.

These are some resources I used before I retired from the USIC: fews.net

You can marry up the data from fews.net with the data from iom.int

Sidenote: 250,000 people in France and Spain were evacuated because of uncontrollable wildfires. More carbon in the atmosphere, more arable land destroyed, and innocent wildlife killed.

The novel Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison, 1966) was the basis for Soylent Green (1973).

Dystopia ad portas.

Trump's former top food official: Cyclospora outbreak 'approaching catastrophic' level
www.politico.com

... President Donald Trump's former top food safety official is calling for an independent review of the federal government's response to a cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people this summer.

"This one deserves a lot of questions, and it is starting to approach a catastrophic level in terms of how mismanaged it's been on multiple fronts," said Frank Yiannas, who served as the Food and Drug Administration's deputy commissioner for food policy and response during both Trump and former President Joe Biden's administration from 2018 to 2023.

He pointed to the outbreak's magnitude, the widespread consumer confusion and the "lack of strong federal leadership" as well as what he described as uncoordinated messaging from federal authorities. ...


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Trump's Saudi Nuclear Deal Fiasco May Finally Push Ally to China and Russia
www.newsweek.com

... President Donald Trump's decision to impose a heavy post-deal condition on a landmark agreement that would see the United States support Saudi Arabia in establishing a civilian nuclear program has threatened to tank the deal and push the longtime U.S. partner to explore separate arrangements with China and Russia.

Trump's declaration Thursday that the U.S.-Saudi agreement could only proceed if the Kingdom were to join the Abraham Accords, effectively normalizing ties with Israel, came less than 24 hours after both nations announced the deal.

The new clause, later reinforced by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, is widely viewed as a non-starter within Saudi Arabia, which has consistently held that diplomatic relations with Israel would be explicitly contingent on a roadmap for Palestinian statehood.

"Any normalization must be preceded by recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Saudi initiative approved by the Arab Summit in Beirut," Mohammed al-Sabban, a former senior adviser to the Saudi minister of energy, told Newsweek. ...


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