{"id":26,"date":"2006-10-31T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-10-31T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:33:05","slug":"why-dont-they-just-seed-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2006\/10\/31\/why-dont-they-just-seed-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t they just seed the clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061031\/sc_nm\/environment_china_water_dc<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the argument over whether the Chinese seed their rain clouds or not comes to a close. The answer must be no, or they wouldn&#8217;t spend $25 Billion or more on such a project. I wonder if de-salination will work. The Middle East is trying it if I&#8217;m not mistaken, and now China is as well. Water shortages worldwide are going to affect the next generation in ways we haven&#8217;t even started to imagine. Also, is the water that they are diverting destined for India? Are we going to see a water war between these two Asian giants? Questions abound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061031\/sc_nm\/environment_china_water_dc Finally, the argument over whether the Chinese seed their rain clouds or not comes to a close. The answer must be no, or they wouldn&#8217;t spend $25 Billion or more on such a project. I wonder if de-salination will work. The Middle East is trying it if I&#8217;m not mistaken, and now China is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2007\/06\/08\/water-aerobics-and-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Water Aerobics and more","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Laugh if you want, but it's true. I'm doing water aerobics to help stay in shape this summer. I just don't think anyone understands how hard it is unless they try it. 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