Drip, Drip, Drip...Today , I can hear the sound of ancient waters beneath the sands.

Desert is the most prominent feature of the Arabian Peninsula. More than half the area

of Saudi Arabia is desert.

Drip, Drip, Drip...Today, I see the trucks arriving, bringing in pipes, machinery to drill wells, and tractors to plow the earth.

With profits from oil exports, Saudi Arabia purchased pivot irrigation systems from the United States- technology that could make

its deserts bloom.

Drip, Drip, Drip...Today, I see the huge arms of the pivot sprinklers, watering the seeds of grain to feed the desert people.

Before the import of new agricultural methods, Saudi Arabia had to import most of its food; now it could become food self-sufficient.

Drip, Drip, Drip...Today,

I see tons of grain, ground into flour and baked into bread.

In just twelve years,

wheat production made Saudi Arabia the world’s sixth-largest wheat exporting country!

Drip, Drip, Drip...Today, I understand that the water is running low. No rains come to replace

the aquifers.

Saudi Arabia spent enormous amounts of money and exhausted massive volumes of water from nonrenewable aquifers.