Chronique des Droits de l'Homme

In this NASA article, the authors explain that Saudi Arabia has uncovered water in the Syrian Desert. In doing so, the Saudi Arabian people are able to cultivate the land and grow crops for roughly 50 years.

Saudi Arabia is known to be a dry region, but over the past thirty years there has become patches of green apparent in Saudi Arabia. Mainly this country is known for drilling of oil as one of their main resources. However, a resource that Saudi Arabia is drilling for is water. The water that Saudi Arabia is looking for is located in aquifers under the ground. Water to Saudi Arabians is a more precious resource than oil because water helps a population thrive not just economically, and to only a few members of a society. This new vegetation and water resource in Saudi Arabia has now turned useless land into useful land. They are making this land more livable for its inhabitants. The water that is being found is helping feed vegetation possibly reducing the costs that they have to spend on foreign food imports by a small margin (not anything dramatic). Drilling for water in such a dry climate I believe is more remarkable than their ability to produce oil resources to the world. I think this because they export the oil to other countries benefitting the economy mainly. The discovery of aquifers however benefits the lives of those people that lie in Saudi Arabia for the better. Internal progress for this country I believe will help them as a whole.

In the Saudi Desert, there are old water deposits hidden deep under the sands that are now starting to be discovered and used for irrigation. Water is a very important resource to those in the region, but it's also a non-renewable resource. Hydrologists estimate water there can only be pumped for 50 years, so it is interesting to think what will Saudi Arabia choose to do with this new commodity.