The 3rd world war will be around water: a major national security risk.
The 3rd world war will be around water: a major national security risk.
Sky world news /Water could be the aggravating factor, the catalyst or even the pretext for all the excesses and conflicts, in particular in the arid zones (Near and Middle East) but also where it is nevertheless present in abundance as in Central Africa, because it is then the concomitance of mismanagement and a lack of infrastructure to be able to treat water and transport it to high-density or on the contrary isolated urban areas that dominates.
However, solutions do exist, fortunately, but it is a lack of political will, which has not yet really emerged, which explains the mismanagement and the shortage.
We postpone good management and governance, or the problems to others, considering that since for the moment there are no water riots as there have been hunger riots, this remains under control. In addition, it is necessary to have a global vision and not only national or even local and thus develop cooperation and international negotiation through the emerging concept of hydrodiplomacy, because it often proves to be more fruitful than confrontation, especially in areas with strong water stress where the temptation to withdraw into oneself is very strong but ultimately destabilizes an entire region, including the upstream State which will have reduced its flow to the downstream States.
It is also important to consider that there is a link between water, food and energy and that the three are inextricably linked, when too often we tend to analyze them separately.
Therefore, if we neglect the water crisis, then it is the future wars of hunger that we will have in the States in a situation of scarcity (which will no longer be able to produce as much cereals or practice animal husbandry with the same intensity), in addition to riots for water. Unfortunately, the nature of man is that he seldom learns from the tragedies of history and has to be on the brink to really change, but sometimes it is too late.
We must propose a “hydraulic mix” associating on the one hand the development of new resources or available water bodies such as dams or seawater desalination, and also better management of the available water, through a more economical useboth for domestic and agricultural uses, where overconsumption is too often the norm, by sensitizing the populations, by making them aware that water has a price, by associating education and if necessary a gradual increase in prices beyond a certain threshold which will be set in relation to availability.
