Friday, 11 January 2008

Water: an obstacle for peace

The Arab-Israeli dispute is a conflict about land - and maybe just as crucially the water which flows through that land.
Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali may not have been right when he said in the 1990s that the next war in the Middle East would be about water not politics, but a future war over water is not out of the question.

Demand for water already outstrips supply, requirements are rising and current supply is unsustainable.

Martin Asser - BBC News

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