Did you know that Qaddafi had nearly completed a huge public works project in Libya that was a huge underground aqueduct? Had it been allowed to continue, it would have transformed Libya from a desert into farm land. But we brought "democracy" to Libya. In the 1940s, Israel was a desert. Now they export fruit to Europe. Why can't this be done in, oh I don't know, Ethiopia? How about Sudan? Somalia? There's no reason why it can't. Yet it doesn't happen.
Maybe they don't have huge cash reserves to subsidise the project or water trapped since the ice age to last 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River Solving the problem isn't easy, because anything you do just causes new problems.
