Lebanon: The Real Aim

Also <a href="http://thecylinder.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/israel-set-war-plan-more-than-a-year-ago/">Israel set war plan more than a year ago</a>

"Lebanon has a wealth of water resources in its numerous rivers, its underground aquifers, and heavy winter rains, but the country faces a perennial shortage of water. It could one day meet all its own needs and be an exporter of hundreds of millions of cubic meters (mcm) of water to its parched neighbors, but many buildings in Beirut once again this summer are without running water. Donors have spent over $600 million since the end of the civil war on renovating the antiquated water supply networks, but a USAID-funded study estimates that more than half of the distribution systems still need to be overhauled. Irrigation systems are in equally bad shape, use mostly inefficient flood methods, and reach less than half of the potential agricultural areas. USAID has funded almost $6 million in potable water and irrigation projects in the past decade."<br />
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<a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr108528e.html">http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr108528e.html</a> <p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
- Justice Louis Brandeis