“Water has lengthy been a instrument of warfare, however lately, the world has entered a darkish new period of hydroterrorism,” Abdoulie Ceesay, the deputy majority chief of the Nationwide Meeting of Gambia, wrote this month.
As local weather change accelerates drought and flooding, stakeholders tussle over shared water sources, and fair-weather frameworks for governing useful resource administration lose relevance, water is more and more changing into a nationwide safety flashpoint around the globe, from the Brazil-Paraguay border to communities dealing with violent extremism within the Sahel.
“Water has lengthy been a instrument of warfare, however lately, the world has entered a darkish new period of hydroterrorism,” Abdoulie Ceesay, the deputy majority chief of the Nationwide Meeting of Gambia, wrote this month.
As local weather change accelerates drought and flooding, stakeholders tussle over shared water sources, and fair-weather frameworks for governing useful resource administration lose relevance, water is more and more changing into a nationwide safety flashpoint around the globe, from the Brazil-Paraguay border to communities dealing with violent extremism within the Sahel.
This version of the Studying Record dives into the politics of water and considers the ecological, humanitarian, and geopolitical dimensions of the brewing water wars.
A boy makes use of a pirogue to maneuver between homes submerged in water in a flooded space of Bamako, Mali, on Oct. 3, 2024.Ousmane Makaveli/AFP by way of Getty Photos
The World Is Getting into a Darkish New Period of Hydroterrorism
Worldwide establishments want to start out treating water as a nationwide safety flashpoint, Abdoulie Ceesay writes.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets with Itaipu Director-Normal Enio Verri and Paraguayan President-elect Santiago Peña on the Alvorada Palace in Brasília on July 28, 2023.Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos
The Dam That Sparked a South American Spying Scandal
Ties between Brazil and Paraguay are fraying as they renegotiate entry to one of many world’s strongest vitality sources, Laurence Blair writes.
A shepherd watches over a herd of sheep as they graze for meals on the dry mattress of Marmara Lake on Oct. 4.Bradley Secker for Overseas Coverage
King of the Dammed
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure tasks are enriching building firms whereas reshaping his nation’s waterscape for the more severe, Hannah Lucinda Smith writes.
Individuals go to the Si-o-Se Pol Bridge in Iran’s central metropolis of Isfahan on April 19, 2024.Rasoul Shojaei / IRNA / AFP by way of Getty Photos
The ‘Water Mafia’ Is Actual—and It’s Draining Iran Dry
If Trump needs to do greater than make headlines, he ought to assist resolve the water disaster, Nik Kowsar and Alireza Nader write.
Uzbek troopers guard a checkpoint close to the Amu Darya, the river that separates Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021. Temur Ismailov/AFP by way of Getty Photos
The Water Wars Are Coming to Central Asia
Issues have been dangerous for many years, however the Taliban threaten to make them worse, Lynne O’Donnell writes.
