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Water conflicts arise for several reasons, including territorial disputes, a fight for resources, and strategic advantage. [6] Water conflicts can occur on the intrastate and interstate levels. Interstate conflicts occur between two or more countries that share a transboundary water source, such as a river, sea, or groundwater basin.
Given the fact that access to water is a cross-border source of concern and potential conflict in the Middle East, South Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of North America amongst other places, some non-governmental organizations and scholars argue that the right to water also has a trans-national or extraterritorial aspect.
More people are now settling in small urban centers, and there is increasing conflict over water and other resources. [97] Water insecurity is a feature of life for both settled and nomadic pastoralists. Women and children bear the burden for fetching water. [98] Groundwater sources! have great potential to improve water supply in Kenya.
The United Nations held its first water conference in decades, focusing on crises and solutions. The U.N. chief said 'water is in deep trouble' globally.
Water politics, sometimes called hydropolitics, is politics affected by the availability of water and water resources, a necessity for all life forms and human development. Arun P. Elhance's definition of hydropolitics is "the systematic study of conflict and cooperation between states over water resources that transcend international borders". [1]
The water rights were acquired through political fighting and, as described by one author, "chicanery, subterfuge ... and a strategy of lies". [2]: 62 Water from the Owens River started being diverted to Los Angeles in 1913, precipitating conflict and eventual ruin of the valley's economy. By the 1920s, so much water was diverted from the Owens ...
Aside from a source of internal conflict within nations, water has caused external tension between sovereign states. While Egypt consumes 99% of the Nile’s water supply, [3] little water originates within Egypt’s sovereign borders. High water demands of a lower riparian have often fueled regional conflict. Such is the case in North Africa.
Jul. 6—A state water quality commissioner has dismissed claims her oil and gas industry ties amount to a conflict of interest in a pending fracking wastewater rule change case after criticism of ...