The Arabs could have been, but they have this dirty war of genocide of the Jews to wage.
The Left in America would hate it, seeing that Leftist made droughts are used as a scheme to push for more government overreach (read = glo-bull warming).
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here – Scientific American
From Ensia (find the original story here); reprinted with permission.
July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.
“Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.
We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel’s salvation. Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.
More here. H/T: Arbie
Do not look for any Arab nation to do this most are way to busy killing each other and funding Jihad all in the name of their deity.