2007-04-12 03:37:07 · 13 answers · asked by Nayan B 1 in Environment
Yes, there are many problems in Africa over this. Also, many areas in Asia and the middle east are confronting each other. Water will soon be a big money field.
2007-04-12 03:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by jcann17 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be neighboring countries that share the same water supply. People are not going to war over water on the other side of the globe. It's probably not likely at the country level.
2007-04-12 04:16:53 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel has already gone to war over water.
many of the Sahel confilcts eg Darfur, are due to water scarcity. Darfur is about as major as a war can get without a US scale military buget.
worth listening to the current reith lectures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/
2007-04-12 03:49:40 · answer #3 · answered by fred 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe not a major war, but definitely a minor one. People have been fighting over water for thousands of years.
2007-04-12 06:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't be a world war, but there are bound to be civil wars over water. The water is available, it is just not fresh potable water. Desalination plants are too expensive for communities or have not countries.
2007-04-12 07:29:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd say international Wars are a distant threat those days. Border conflicts are probably going to take position yet i don't think of any us of a rather has the middle to have interplay in a lengthy drawn out significant conflict in the close to destiny. each and each and every of the numerous powers are heavily curious about commerce with one yet another and to break that would nicely be devastating to the international monetary device. you won't be able to commence a conflict without dropping your status in the international community. maximum military movements so a strategies as i'm able to work out will be both "Peacekeeping" or "Peacemaking" in an attempt to maintain the prestige-quo
2016-11-23 14:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by russ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a possibility.
If we do nothing about global warming it is much more likely, since precipitation will move up in latitude from the inhabited ares toward the poles.
Page 16 of this report:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
And more in this one:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
"By mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10-40% at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas, and decrease by 10-30% over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently water stressed areas."
2007-04-12 03:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scarcity is the mother or war.
2007-04-12 03:41:40 · answer #8 · answered by John M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes . it is possible .
Our physics teacher tells us that the 3rd WW wil be 4 water
2007-04-12 04:19:26 · answer #9 · answered by abc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. Water is the one thing no one can live without...
2007-04-12 03:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by Curly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋