The first time I heard of a desalination plant I grinned. It was so long ago I can't remeber when it happened. I can just remember how naive I was. At that time I thought: "It is man subjugating nature. We won the battle for survival!". I was genuinely proud of belonging to the human species.
I was not only naive, but very stupid as well. Desalination plants are ticking time-bombs of mass destruction. Guys, no country will ever resort to that unless if it is living above the self-sustainable water resouces it has by the way of nature.
After so may years of desalination activity, some very bad unintended consequences were found out:
1- The level of salt around the area from which the water is taken is eight times higher than average.
2- This is killing coral reefs, the sea food nursery in the seas.
3- That means less food from the ocean for the people living in the area.
4- The yields of the desalination plants are going down, meaning that they are using more energy to produce the same amount of water. This has been caused by the increase in concentration mentioned before.
Do you want to know some startling thing that you should have been made aware by all media and governments on Earth? Here you go: the level of the Dead Sea fell 150 feet (45 meters) since the 1950s! Who is going to drink the last drop? Israel or Jordan?
Therefore it does not require too much sophistication to perceive that the situation is (rapidly) moving to a dead end. Thence instead of supporting one side or another in a civil was that will only decide who will preside over Doomsday, the US administration should be leading the conversation between the people in the Middle East to bring them back to sanity, with the cooperation of the entire international community.
Otherwise, one day the following conversation may happen in one of those countries:
"Sir, our water supplies will last for just one more year"
"Do you have the nukes ready?"
"Yes."
"So drop the first one on..."
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