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The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040
merbs writes: Water access is going to be one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. As climate change dries out the already dry areas and makes the wet ones wetter, we're poised to see some radical civilizational shifts. For one, a number of densely populated areas will come under serious water stress—which analysts fear will lead to strife, thirst, and even violent conflict. With that in mind, the World Resource Institute has assembled a new report projecting which nations are most likely to be hardest hit by water stress in coming decades—nations like Bahrain, Israel, Palestine, and Spain lead the pack.
Oh well, I suppose people with very stable and safe lives need to find something to fear.
some corrupt bastard is mucking up the works.
Why would you think they would be any fewer in 2040?
I'm assuming you're talking about desalination.
There is that. The bigger issue is transportation. There's plenty of water, just not where we need it at the moment. And we have to restore contaminated water. Time to build some big-ass, nuclear powered tunnel boring machines, and pipe it around like oil, gas, and battery acid. And after bailing out the bankers, I don't want hear anybody crying that we don't have the money. There's plenty of that also, just not where we need it at the moment...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
And what if that rainfall change leads to greater rainfall on one side of a national border and far leads arable conditions on the other? Imagine of large swathes of the Midwest are rendered unsuitable for large scale agriculture, because rainbelts have moved into Canada. Suddenly the United States' food security is in a foreign country's hands.
There are serious geopolitical ramifications of male changes in rainfall patterns.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Read about the water wars in California and neighboring states when the Colorado River was tapped to turn desert into oasis. Any jurisdiction that imagines it is just going to wholesale grab another jurisdiction's water is likely in for a rude surprise. Now imagine if those jurisdictions are in different nations.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The problem with peace at the level of nations is that you need to nation-entities who are interested in peace(ful coexistence). When you find the second such player in the Israeli-Arab conflict, please let Israel know.
are you implying israel is interested in peace ? that's a load of BS.