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Israel Saved Iranians Before The Mullahs Stopped It
3.24.2015
Peter Malcolm
Contrary to what the Iranian mullahs tell their people, Israelis not only don’t hate the Iranian people, they actually helped them survive before the mullahs came to power. In 1962, after the deadly earthquake in the Qazvin region of Iran that killed over 12,000 people, a chain of wells that Iranian engineers had constructed in a tunnel style collapsed.
Israel sent drillers to help build artesian wells were drilled; they were so successful that Israel’s water engineering company was hired by the Iranians to identify and gain access to other underground resources. In 1968, a desalination company run by the Israeli government built dozens of desalination plants in Iran.
In 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, cooperation between the countries ended. One team of water experts took one of the last direct flights from Tehran to Tel Aviv.
According to the World Nuclear Association, “Some 40% of Israel's water is desalinated, and one large RO plant provides water at 58 cents per cubic metre, claimed to be the world's cheapest. It also claimed to have the world’s largest seawater RO plant as of late 2013, at Soreq, producing 627,000 m3/day. In 2016 it expects more than half the country’s water will be desalinated.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian people suffer, unlike the Jordanians, who signed a $900 million agreement for a new desalination plant at Aqaba on the Red Sea. 80 million m3 per year/220,000 m3/d of water at the Aqaba plant will be utilized; Israel will buy half of it for Eilat and the Arava region, Jordan will get half the water for its arid southern area.
According to the Washington Post in 2014, “Iran is headed for a water shortage of epic proportions, and little is being done to reverse a decades-long trend that has reduced the country’s water supply to crisis levels. 'Our water usage is twice the world standard, and considering the situation in our country, we have to reduce this level,' Massoumeh Ebtekar, a vice president and the head of Iran’s Department of Environment, said in a recent speech.”