Growing competition for water in already arid areas, alongside the compounding effect of climate change, has led to a flurry of water-related headlines.

  • The prospect of water wars is a long-running and active debate, with everyone from high-ranking U.N. officials to renowned hydro-politics experts voicing their concern about the perceived risks.

  • Growing competition for water in already arid areas, alongside the compounding effect of climate change, has led to a flurry of water-related headlines in recent months.

  • Francis Galgano, an associate professor at the department of geography and the environment at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, identified nine international river basins as potential flashpoints.

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    The word “likely” should be stripped from that headline. It will definitely happen. Just as mass migrations will happen due to losing a lot of habitable areas. Many coastal cities/areas will also be gone (submerged) in only a few decades.

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    At least we know that if the US starts a war against water, they’ll lose it like they did with every other war lmao