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"Ties van der Hoeven can already picture it: Not too far into the future, the
bearded 41-year-old engineer will be standing on the hills above Lake Bardawil.
At the moment, it’s little more than a diminished lagoon amid parched land on
the North Coast of the Sinai peninsula, the battered triangle that connects
Africa to Asia. Someday, however, Van der Hoeven believes it will be a fully
restored reservoir, ringed with trees and wetlands, and teeming with fish, sea
grasses, and fields from which the locals will once again harvest vegetables.
“This used to be the land flowing with milk and honey, the promised land, the
Garden of Eden,” the Dutch engineer says. “We can turn it into paradise again.”
Van der Hoeven might be a maverick morphological engineer, having grown up with
hippie parents on a sailboat. But his vision is no pipe dream. Engineers around
the world have already shown that it is possible to effectively regreen deserts
and arid plains."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
