"Here’s Where the Post-Apocalyptic Water Wars Will " Topic

…Be Fought

"A United Nations report published last week said we have about a decade to get climate change under control, which—let's be honest—isn't likely to happen. So break out your goalie masks and harpoon guns, a Mad Max future awaits! Now, as new research points out, we even know where on Earth the inevitable water wars are most likely to take place.

Sarcasm aside, this report is actually quite serious.

Published today in Global Environmental Change, the paper identifies several hotspots around the globe where "hydro-political issues," in the parlance of the researchers, are likely to give rise to geopolitical tensions, and possibly even conflict. The authors of the new report, a team from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), say the escalating effects of climate change, in conjunction with ongoing trends in population growth, could trigger regional instability and social unrest in regions where freshwater is scarce, and where bordering nations have to manage and share this increasingly scarce commodity…."
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Armand

I'm glad to see that the Coloroado is mentioned that resource is close to being fought over.

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Personally, I believe water related issues are a much more important/deadly crisis than global warming. That said, I wonder who California will send to the Colorado River to secure their water supplies. Lawyers or gangsters? (yes, I know they are pretty much the same thing)

(smile)

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Armand

They won't jd.

Citizens will just to told to ration harder. That's the current "plan", and has been in practice for over 30 years, as demonstrated by the total lack of interest in building new reservoirs, despite a huge increase in population over that time.

No water for washing clothes or cars, watering lawns, etc..

In the meantime … swimming pools throughout California and other areas will continue to remain full, and the huge celebrity mansions, golf courses and country clubs will stay green and lush, taking massive amounts of water away from "lesser" folk in neighboring states

And, as if that wasn't enough, the loud activists (and their sympathetic media and politicians) will continue their ridiculous demand that all crops be irrigated using good potable water. Who knows? Maybe one day those same idiots will demand that livestock be taken to spas three times a week. :)

Dan

Glup!….

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Armand

Amen CC