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The relationship between water resources and global conflict
August 30 , 2021
Nowadays, in developed countries, their domestic water has not been considered. In the underdeveloped areas of the world, thanks to the joint efforts of the government and non-governmental organizations that began in 1992, today 1.7 billion people have access to clean water. Despite this, millions of people die every year due to lack of preventable diseases and have access to clean water and proper sanitation.
This includes the daily death of 5,000 children from diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, which are caused by contaminated drinking and cooking water. Today, it is estimated that 880 million people still do not have access to clean water, and 2.7 billion people do not have adequate sanitation facilities. The water resources situation remains grim.
In October, scientists from the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) published a research report that identified hot spots where competition for shared and limited water resources around the world may lead to future conflicts.
"The scope of our research has two aspects. First, we want to emphasize the factors that lead to political cooperation or tensions in trans boundary river basins. Second, we want to map and monitor such interactions in space and time as well as changing socio-economic conditions. Possibility. Among the research results:
The combination of climate change and population growth may exacerbate water political issues
Water conflicts are more likely to occur in areas that are already under water pressure
The most vulnerable countries include the areas around the Nile, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Indus, Tigris-Euphrates, and Colorado, all of which are currently under water pressure.
To make matters worse, a landmark report recently issued by the United Nations stated that the world had only 12 years to stop global warming before the earth fell into extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty.