Travel, in any context, rouses exciting thoughts and discovery. In Tunisia, at least for this Western traveler, the intensity of the arid climate amplified the number of these revelations. In the relative dryness of the Sahara, one theme reoccurred at every moment of my stay: water. In Tunisia, an increase in tourism, urban sprawl, irrigation and population relentlessly deplete the water that rivers and aquifers supply. Even more, as I sadly learned as a result of a bait-and-switch technique in…
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Added by Noah Sabich on June 7, 2009 at 10:59am —
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