Fishing in the Desert
Via Betsy Newmark, this wonderful story of man's triumph over nature: raising fish in the desert. Seems a little odd, of course, but that's what Israelis are good at - coming up with clever solutions to problems:
Scientists here say they realized they were on to something when they found that brackish water drilled from underground desert aquifers hundreds of feet deep could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as saline as sea water, free of pollutants and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proved an ideal match.
Imagine that. Turning your bright minds to the problems of feeding people, rather than shooting each other and blowing themselves up. Who would have thought to find that in the Middle East?
