Are Future Water Wars Inevitable?
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Throwforward Thursday 142: Water Wars
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Water shortages are likely brewing future wars — with several flashpoints across the globe
The prospect of water wars is a long-running and active debate, with everyone from high-ranking U.N. officials to renowned hydro-politics experts voicing their concern about the perceived risks. Source:...
India, China and the possibility of Water Wars
India and China could be gearing up for a fresh geopolitical conflict. This isn’t a conflict involving guns, soldiers and warfare. But it is a conflict that concerns an absolutely vital geopolitical resource that neither India nor China can live without. Source:...
What’s behind Iraq’s water crisis? | People & Power Documentary
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U.N. Warns of Water Wars as 2 Billion People Lack Clean Water with Africa & Middle East Hardest Hit
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Water Wars
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The Water Crisis
703 million people lack basic access to safe water lean drinking water and basic sanitation are critical to life. Without them, families walk miles for water that makes them sick, spend their income on medication, and struggle to send their children to school. The...
Pakistan’s Governance Failure: Water crisis in the parched lands of Sindh
In the southern reaches of Pakistan, Sindh province is confronting an unprecedented water crisis that exposes the failures of governmental governance and resource management. The narrative that emerges is one of systematic neglect, calculated misallocation, and a...
Sign in Gravitas: Wall street is trading water!
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There’s a new crisis looming in a commodity 400 times bigger than oil
It’s something we use everyday — couldn’t survive without, actually — and often take for granted. Yet freshwater could run out by 2040 at our current rate of consumption, says a report by BofA Global Research. “Some 75 per cent of our planet is covered with water, yet...
Future Wars: Will there be wars over water?
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MEGA-DROUGHT PLAGUES EARTH | Countdown to Armageddon
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Are We Running Out Of Water?
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Disruption in water cycle threatens the Earth | DW News
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Global Water Market To Reach $915B By 2023 As Oil And Commodity Prices Recover, New GWI Forecasts Reveal
The global water market is projected to reach a total value of $914.9B in 2023, according to the latest 2018-2023 forecasts published by Global Water Intelligence (GWI). GWI’s market research linked this growth to a recovering global economy, high commodity and oil...
High temps, drought in China affect drinking water, crops
Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies. BEIJING — Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and...
Kenya’s water and sanitation crisis
With a population of 53 million, 15 percent of Kenyans rely on unimproved water sources, such as ponds, shallow wells and rivers, while 41 percent of Kenyans lack access to basic sanitation solutions. These challenges are especially evident in rural areas and urban...
Explained | World’s Water Crisis | FULL EPISODE | Netflix
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Water Crisis in Italy: Five Regions Declare State of Emergency
Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions battling the worst drought in 70 years, the government announced on Monday night, as the country is gripped by a relentless heat wave that started at the end of June. On that very same day, a tragic...
Our drinking water – Is the world drying up? | DW Documentary
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Heatwave: Why is France having its worst drought ever?
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Water Crisis in the Middle East
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More than 100 French towns without drinking water amid ‘historic drought
More than 100 towns in France have no more drinking water and must receive deliveries by truck, France’s ecological transition minister said while visiting the country’s southeastern region. “There are already more than a hundred municipalities in...
How bad is the Middle East’s water crisis?
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Water shortages in Mexico City
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The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable
Lake Urmia, Iran (CNN)The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in Iran’s Lake Urmia sit rusty, unable to move, on what is rapidly becoming a salt plain. Just two decades ago, Urmia was the Middle East’s biggest lake, its local...
Gravitas: 8,000 people in Canadian city don’t have drinking water
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UN: Over 5 billion may face drinking water shortage by 2050 | Global Water Scarcity | English News
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Running Dry: Karachi’s Water Crisis
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The fight for water | DW Documentary
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Pakistan’s City with No Water | Unreported World
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Our drinking water – Is the world drying up? | DW Documentary
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India on Fire: Facing the Climate Crisis | 101 East Documentary
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Watch in full: Special programme on the Drought Emergency
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Spain’s water problem | DW Documentary
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WION Climate Tracker: Spain’s ancient water reservoirs dry up | World News
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Shadow of Drought: Southern California’s Looming Water Crisis
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WION Climate Tracker| UK: Source of Thames river dries up; England faces drought like conditions
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The Most Liquid Future: Water
It’s been three full days of trading the newest commodity contract out there – Water. The liquid future now joins the ranks of gold and oil, allowing investors to bet on the price coming up. Bloomberg’s Dani Burger reports on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”...
The World’s Water Crisis”: Tokyo is predicted to run out of water in the next few decades
Living in Japan, we are never made to think of how fortunate we are to have access to water. This year, however, I watched a 19-minute documentary called the “World’s Water Crisis.” The episode is part of the television series, “Explained,” and is available on...
Why The American West Is Running Out Of Water – Cheddar Explains
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Serious drought hitting Europe, wider world
Much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere is battling either wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions or a mixture of all these. DW rounds up the situation. Around much of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hungary to Hawaii, from the...
Water Crisis: A Global Problem That’s Getting Worse | Planet A
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Gravitas: Europe faces worst drought in 500 years
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India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear. Otherwise hundreds of millions of lives will be in danger
New Delhi (CNN)The world’s second-most populous country is running out of water. About 100 million people across India are on the front lines of a nationwide water crisis. A total of 21 major cities are poised to run out of groundwater next year, according to a...
Why China is Running out of Water
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India facing the worst water crisis in its history
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