Do you think that a major war can occur due to water scarcity?

Question

Do you think that a major war can occur due to water scarcity?

Answer 1

d**n Right it can.  Just Look at '300' in theaters NOW.

Answer 2

Probably... Eventually... Things are gonna get ugly. :(

Answer 3

NO there are hundreds of ways to treat the water so we can use it.

Answer 4

yes . it is possible .

Our physics teacher tells us that the 3rd WW wil be 4 water

Answer 5

Maybe not a major war, but definitely a minor one. People have been fighting over water for thousands of years.

Answer 6

Yes, there are many problems in Africa over this.  Also, many areas in Asia and the middle east are confronting each other.  Water will soon be a big money field.

Answer 7

It would have to be neighboring countries that share the same water supply. People are not going to war over water on the other side of the globe. It's probably not likely at the country level.

Answer 8

Scarcity is the mother or war.

Answer 9

Israel has already gone to war over water.

many of the Sahel confilcts eg Darfur, are due to water scarcity. Darfur is about as major as a war can get without a US scale military buget.

worth listening to the current reith lectures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/

Answer 10

It won't be a world war, but there are bound to be civil wars over water.  The water is available, it is just not fresh potable water.  Desalination plants are too expensive for communities or have not countries.

Answer 11

yes. Water is the one thing no one can live without...

Answer 12

It's a possibility.  

If we do nothing about global warming it is much more likely, since precipitation will move up in latitude from the inhabited ares toward the poles.

Page 16 of this report:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

And more in this one:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

"By mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10-40% at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas, and decrease by 10-30% over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently water stressed areas."