Comments on: The Middle East Dries Up—Another Case Study in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Finding the Link Between Water Stress and Food Prices – Water Matters - State of the Planet http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-46028 Finding the Link Between Water Stress and Food Prices – Water Matters - State of the Planet Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:47:14 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-46028 [...] in India and China are in serious danger, as are the now all-but-water-depleted countries of the Middle East: in particular Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Egypt. Saudi Arabia has now so thoroughly depleted its [...]

]]> By: Stratos http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15923 Stratos Tue, 10 May 2011 22:12:47 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15923 US aquifers are also being depleted by foolish farming practices in the midwest, south and west. Conservation, recycling and dry farming techniques could provide a way out of this dilemma.

]]> By: Patrick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15743 Patrick Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:38 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15743 Its much more efficient to simply ship grains (e.g. wheat), than to actually ship water. Many of these places have some water; if what little supplies they had were used for municipal and industrial purposes, and the agricultural water was significantly minimized. Although counter-intuitive, importing grain could increase food security.

However, this would not insulate the region from food price hikes, which often has more to do with speculation on grain markets than actual supply and demand.

]]> By: James http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15458 James Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:33:56 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15458 Ships and bladders?
Kind of brings to mind national debt. Of course the USA could do the same thing. But I guess I would not be surprised to find out politics will choose to break the country rather than pay off the national debt.
Easier to let China ship us some more dry wall or lead tainted childrens toys than to take care of business.
The late great USA the joke is on you america.

]]> By: Brian http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15451 Brian Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:23:22 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15451 The Chinese are having trouble with their aquafers as well and their solution is to send over to Americas Great Lakes huge ships with bladders as big as football fields to fill up with millions of gallons of water and pump into their aquafers.That sounds outlandish but the Chinese and oh yeah a tiny little company called Nestle are doing just that right now.Surely the Saudis can afford a big ship and a few bladders.

]]> By: Dave http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15416 Dave Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:02:04 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15416 Water is more important than oil. Lets price it at double the price of oil. Wheat too. Why do we let the opeck*** extort us ?

]]> By: James http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15403 James Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:14:55 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15403 Sounds like and excellent price unless of course the cost of shipping goes up. Then the price of water must also go up to support cost increase.
After all we would not want to take advantage of such a situation. Right?

]]> By: ironcitadel http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/comment-page-1/#comment-15383 ironcitadel Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:44:49 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880#comment-15383 My heart goes out to all those poor middle easterners who are running out of water. We should make it a national priority to help them get fresh water. We could probably ship them all the water they can drink for, maybe, $100 per barrel. Sound like a fair price?

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