There are many phony shortages in Israel. There's a paper shortage but Israel has plenty of paper. That's right, there's plenty of water.
However, Israelis are taught to conserve both paper and water.
Nearly every summer begins with dire predictions about an impending water shortage. The newspapers report the various ways in which righteous people in previous generations used to ration water.
I may be jailed for violating a State secret with the following announcement, but my readers have the Right To Know:
Nobody in Israel will die of dehydration if you ask for a second cup of water. Just make sure you drink it from the same cup, in order to save on paper.
Visitors to Israel face other problems with water as well. Since Israel obviously does not have real water, these naive people drink Evian "real" bottled water.
It's not really better than the regular water the rest of us drink here. It certainly doesn't have as much delicious calcium. If they think they're getting "better" water, they're probably wrong.
Or perhaps they never read the name Evian backwards.
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