Arab–Israeli peace projects regional problems of acute shortage of clean fresh water in Jordan, and the rapid contraction of the Dead Sea. A new desalination plant to be built near the Jordanian tourist resort of Aqaba would convert salt water from the Red Sea into fresh water for use in southern Israel and southern Jordan; each region would get eight billion to 13 billion gallons a year. This process would produces about as much brine as a waste product; the brine would be piped more than 100 miles to help replenish the Dead Sea, already known for its high salt content. This would
What Fresh Hell Is This? commercial obscurity", and "Calgary Herald" critic James Muretich calling the album "more tortured, timeless tunes of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll by Canada's subculture answer to Ray Davies, Leonard Cohen and Paul Westerberg". It won the Juno Award for Best Alternative Album in 1996. Bergmann followed up with "Design Flaw", an album of rerecorded versions of songs from his earlier albums, in 1998, but did not record another full-length album of new material until "The Apostate" in 2016. What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell is This? is the fourth studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1995