They have squatted on thousands of dunams of state lands and then demanded that the state provide them with water and electricity in the lands they stole.

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These firms should be paying their fair share of the bounty they get from our lands and water.

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Issues like water rights and public lands and the kinds of things that you just don't encounter on the East Coast, where the political establishment is concentrated.

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The programme, which provides a UNESCO Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands was established in 2004 to strengthen the global capacity for management of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions.

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Michael Petraglia says that in the past, the spot must have been a lush river valley: "There is a major valley across the area which once was a river running westward forming waterfalls and taking water to the low fertile lands west of Al-Magar, " he explains.

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The downside is they are also more likely to make mistakes, less likely to have a back-up plan if things go wrong, bad with details, and more likely to take a risk that lands them in hot water.

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By freeing up more state and federal lands for drilling, cutting unnecessary, burdensome restrictions while protecting wells and ground water with safe and smart regulations, every American might soon get his own slice of the real promised land.

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