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the idea of war and conflict around water shortages or the watershed supply
is not really a new concept to you many movies to science fiction I mean the
entire book
dune is based around having to store
and manage water reserves at the micro-level
albee it on another planet not exactly and earth-based
story but that maybe not that far off with plans to go to mars within the
decade and now the Guardian has a very interesting report
about global water shortages actually posing the threat
both terror and war California Middle East a very large areas around the world
are drying up billions of people do not have access to safe drinking water
and US intelligence which we can trust or not trust and many people would have
good reason not to trust that
but it seems to be corroborated US and foreign intelligence
suggests that the danger around a shrinking
a drinkable water resources
could bring this to a point where there could be Folau war and terrorism
around the acquisition and protection above
water and data show that
California is on the verge of an epic drought it has backup systems have
underground water reserves that are down
lower than they've been for a long time we have Brazil
the middle East North Africa South Asia China are at risk
and it's still not feasible to simply run DeSales Asian processes from
in order to turn salt ocean water into drinkable water it's very expensive
and it requires a lot of energy it might just exacerbate the energy problem that
we have
certainly to me number one an indication that we need to stop the fracking any
process
that is using so much water to
derive a non-renewable sources
energy needs to stop right away as if we didn't already have countless
environmental concerns over it and water is another environmental concern
but we really may be heading in a direction Louis where once again we've
talked about food
food is not a supply problem on this planet we have plenty of food for
everybody to not be hungry
we have a distribution in resource allocation issue and with water we may
be quickly heading towards water as a as a a catalyst for war
yeah I don't see why not just one of the many things we can add to the list
that that is a huge problem in that will eventually run out
its not that not fun to think about
I don't think it will happen in our lifetimes but you never know
you never know and I I don't know for sure that won't happen during our
lifetimes if you look at the Middle
east then you look at places like Israel and surrounding areas
that already are in a heightened states I'll attention
and you look at the limited water resources that are there
water could become in a way it already is a political issue there but it would
could become an even more acute
catalyst for political tension we're obviously going to stay on the story
it's something that affect everybody you can say
I'm not going to worry about water that