As California faced
its fourth year of an extreme drought in 2015, Californians could have done
worse than look at Israel’s ten-year completed effort to desalinate
Mediterranean seawater and recycle wastewater. The sustained investments provided Israel
“with enough water for all its needs, even during severe droughts.”[1]
If only California’s officials could say the same. Rather than deprive the
Israelis of the opportunity to instruct the Californians, I want to point to
the subtle role of basis-of-comparison as undermining the California end.
The complete essay is at Essays on Two Federal Empires.
The complete essay is at Essays on Two Federal Empires.
1. Isabel Kershner, “Aided
by the Sea, Israel Overcomes an Old Foe: Drought,” The New York Times, May 29, 2015.
