YES! We’ve already seen it with the Arab Spring.
27%
YES! And will get worse without addressing climate change.
73%

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PaulHosse 10 years 44 weeks ago

No doubt. Water is perhaps the most essential "asset" remaining to be control (with the possible exception of clean air). With the decline in clean fresh drinkable water, we'll see mass movements of people, resulting in a overload in existing economic/social systems. Nations will wage economic war to oobtain it and keep it. If that doesn't work, they will wage military operations to either capture and control it or render it unusable by the other side.

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jdirtforever 10 years 41 weeks ago

I would take issue with the words "next" and "nations". Specifically, if "nations" aren't already surreptitiously fighting over water, I don't imagine any one nation declaring war over water, any more than a war wwas fought in Iraq over oil.

Yes oil is important, water is important, but the decision makers in countries around the world have ways of keeping both resources flowing.

No rush.

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