Water's Not a Technological Issue, It's a Political Issue

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In california, where i live, is like who should get the very limited amount of water that we have. The first mesopotamian cities in five thousand wesee faced exactly the same issues as today. Somebody has to orchestruate labor in order to build embankments or put dams in place. And that's really what happened with the first city states five thousand years ago. That's, in a sense, what happens still to day.

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