Israel will export it to the world.

refill all the West Bank wells by replacing the water that they stole to fill the swimming pools and water the gardens of the illegal settlers?

then we can think about having a real future in this world...Either that, or a car engine running on seawater. That would put Arabs back into desert where they naturally belong: no more driving Ferraris in Dubai and threatening the planet with the scourge of Islam... how about it Comrades?

Israel has spent a great deal of time and effort and study and sweat equity into turning one of the driest patches of land on the planet into a lush garden. We are under no obligation to share our bounty. Cut off Gaza, cut off the "Palestine" Authority. The "Palestinians" have spent the better part of the past seven decades trying to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews. Perhaps a real issue might give them all the impetus they need to turn to other areas. Let them be responsible for their own drinking water and their own irrigation. That's as good a place to start as any.

What a stupid thing to post-Israel has all the water it needs why would it "steal" water which belongs to Israel.

What a deal, a bottle of desalinated water at the price of Johnnie Walker, can't beat that, no sir ;) ,...

If you live in New York state, you are a settler too. Are you going to leave and go back to Europe? At least Jews originated from the area and are simply returning home. The Arabs like your European ancestors came as invaders.

The Rabbis who spend their lives in the yeshivot pray for water - and the Jews who study in universities produce water from the sea. Perhaps we should stop wasting billions on a new water line to Jerusalem and let the ultra-orthodox pray for water instead? They will object perhaps they realise that their prayers will go unanswered

1) water IS more valuable than oil. you can't run a car or a bus on water, but have you ever tried drinking oil?! 2 or 3 days without cars or buses is bad enough, whereas going without water is fatal. 2) desalinated water IS oil, effectively. so long as the desalination plants run on electricity from the national grid, they are effectively turning oil (and coal and natural gas) into drinking water. until israel achieves energy independence (and may it be soon!), this only increases israel's dependence on imported energy. 3) nuclear is probably the most appropriate power source for desalination. like the demand for water, it runs 24x7, and water is easier to store than electricity. the engineering is simple, but the politics are probably unsolvable. ah, well!

Just like you white European colonists are going to restock the prairies with the buffalo herds you killed. And which rochester do you live in, Doug? I'm trying to figure out which native American nation your illegal settler house is squatting on while you preach high and mighty morality to us from your mighty nation that was founded on occupation, genocide, slavery and land theft.

Starts at Dan in the north to Beersheva and beyond in the south, from the sea in the west to the Hills of Samaria in the east. The inferno of hell is all around this.

The cost of drinking water produced by desalination plants is 10 to 20 times more what people were paying in places where they get water from natural source or reservoir ,... There's a lot of fresh water wasted in Israel during rainy days due to the lack of means to collect it like reservoirs.

Oh Doug, get a life. Judea and Samaria are, for better or worse, and whether or not you like it, part of the heartland of Israel. You know d*mn well that YOU may call Israelis living in central Israel "illegal," but you also know we do NOT agree with you. The San Remo Agreement gives us the right to live anywhere from the Med to the river Jordan, and that was a consolation after Britain illegally and unilaterally created a Judenrein client state out of Eastern Palestine, which under the League of Nations Mandate it had no right to do. We're the LEGALS, mister Doug!

You are such a jackass. All of the water belongs to Israel. It is not possible to steal that which you own. Don't like it? Cry me a river. We'll give your salty tears to the "Palestinians." By the way, all the known aquifers were discovered by Israel. Prior to June 1967, only about ten percent of the homes in Judea and Samaria had electricity, and roughly an equal number had running water and indoor plumbling. There were no sewage systems, which explained the perennial outbreaks of cholera which claimed thousands of lives annually. The West Bank, prior to June 1967, had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. But you cannot see anything beyond your hatred for the Jews, can you? You're too ignorant for words.

If it's Rochester, New York, the land was stolen from the Oneida and the Seneca, tribes, or the Iriquois. If it's Rochester, Minnesota, the land was stolen from the Anishinaabe people (Chippews and Ojibwe) or the Dakota Sioux. If it's any other Rochester, the land still was stolen. But you have to make allowances for Doug -- in addition to being rather a routine anti-Semite, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer .... make sure to use small words when trying to explain something to him. And be prepared to explain it over and over again. He really is rather dull.

The article says 400$ per family per YEAR. That's extremely low cost. What's your yearly water cost? Or do you only drink Johny Walker?

Should read GIVE to the "palestinians", as they don't pay their bills anyway. Actually, instead of the 20% that they generously recieve from now, they should recieve 0% from Israel and go drink His Royal Shortnesses Royal Donkey Urine in Jordan where they belong.

Sarah, you are usually far to right wing for me. In this case however, I agree with you 100%. That's something I never thought I would say.

My politics are right wing, admittedly, even a little too far to the right for members of my family. But politics are a very personal matter. Facts, on the other hand, are just facts, and their nature does not change no matter what the political bent of the observer. There! Do you feel better about agreeing with far right wing me now?

Kowalskjy? Polaks drink "vodka" made of potato peels, boiled cabbage and grandpas socks...."can't beat that, no sir ;) ,... "

Probably. And Kowalsky wouldn't drink Johnny Walker, only the polish vodka that mama would make from potato peels and hog intestines would suit his gut.

Good point, polak, Israel should import your unemployed countrymen to dig reservoirs. They can't be any worse than "palestinian" laborers...or can they?

Drunk all the time. But not Johnny Walker.

There are plenty of cisterns in Israel, you moron. Some of the oldest cisterns in the world have been found in Israel. And Lake Kinneret acts as a natural reservoir. There are the Gihon springs. There is Banyas. If you don't know what you are babbling about, have the good sense to shut up.

How quickly Americans (like me), forget that we live on "occupied" territory too! In fact, almost every civilization in the world was at one time invaded and/or occupied. I guess when it comes to Israel, the world has a short memory?????

Split, you are indeed an ignoramus....As another poster so astutely wrote: The Cistern and aqueduct systems of Israel were developed over thousands of years. Then ancients were not stupid...Wells and Cisterns were present in Israel before Europeans came out of their caves.