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Israel recently announced that residential water consumption dropped by 9% compared to 2008. Most of it can be attributed to the public’s awareness of the need to conserve this precious resource. 
To amplify this achievement, the Israeli government launched a series of steps designed to save water. Most of these were delivered via scare tactics, threats, raising water rates, and fines.
The public was quick to respond, demanding of their government: Talk nicely to me. When you ask nicely, we’re happy to oblige. When you threaten us, the public said, we will have to respond by exposing transgressions in the water agencies conduct over the years.
The head of the Water Research Institute of the Israeli Technion, said, as early as 1965, that Israel doesn’t lack water. Eyebrows were raised, and murmurs made, primarily in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) to which he responded by saying that a seaside country cannot claim it lacks water. The technologies exist, some are even locally developed, but they are all sold around the world and not applied in Israel.
So, is there water, or isn’t there?
There is plenty of water around us, only it is unavailable. What can this be likened to? To a hungry, thirsty, and depressed person, who walks in a citrus grove with his eyes stuck to the ground, and doesn’t lift his head up to see the abundance above him.
Perhaps the feeling of a lack of water is a reflection of a nation’s mood. A nation used to living with a sense of lack, a constant need for conservation, and a limited ability for enjoying the infinite abundance flowing from the universe. But we live in a desert, don’t we? Yes, and so is Las Vegas, which was built in a desert and lives off desalinating salt-water springs.
Shall we practice abundance meditation and all shall be well?
Yes and no. Yes, since as we saw, everything starts within. One has to agree to connect to the abundance offered by the universe in order to receive it. If one believes the world to be hard and cruel, this is how it would be reflected back. Believing the world is generous will result in meeting it daily as such.
There is a famous story about an assistant to Rumi, the great Sufi mystic, who believed, as his master taught him, that God will provide, and thus did nothing to help himself or his camels. Noticing this, Rumi was angry with his student’s ignorance. “Where are God’s hands?” he asked, but his student was confused and didn’t know the answer.
“God’s hands are your hands” said Rumi, “and they are the tool by which the Divine manifests itself.”
Water exists in abundance, the technology is available, and all we need is an internal willingness to accept this abundance, to reach out, pick these existing technologies, and create infinite resource out of the abundance of water.
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Translation: DeAnna L’am
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