Are Future Water Wars Inevitable?

By 2025, two-thirds of the global population will live in a water-scarce region. Over the next century, the chance of cross-border conflicts over water could rise by 95%.

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[XxONILINKxX]

Excellent video. This deserves more views.

[helen]

It's sad that water wars are now more than a squirt gun fight...

[azazel]

If we duke it out over worthless things like oil, I dread to imagine what we will do when something as precious as water becomes scarce.

[catika]

The scale of the Ethiopia dam project isn't really touched on here. Egypt relies on The Nile for 90% of its water. 95 million people live in The Nile Delta alone and that figure is predicted to double in the next 50 years. If Ethiopia and Egypt cannot reach an agreement then millions and millions of people may die. The project is due to be completed in a few years.

[nickxtremegaming]

the future world will be a very grim and dark place

[jeffhenley]

How is this series not being blasted all over the world, round the clock All over social media? Let’s go people, make it happen!

[mojojeinxs]

Not water or oil it is over population.
There are too many of us depleting resources.

[helenclark]

Good report but you forgot to add the massive amounts of H2O that we greedily consume by FRACKING!

[tobiasschmid]

One Word : Desalination, It's not perfect but unlimited water

[saadmubarak]

نعم .. وبكل مصداقيه.. نعم سيحدث تلوث الماء وحرب المياه 😉

[Kaiyats]

How to make more H2O Hydrogen and Oxygen, We got plenty of Hydrogen and Oxygen

[kingdomofbird]

Russia Canada Usa and Specially Brazil has much water

[obamabinladen]

Interesting how you refrain from naming China.

[esmaistuu]

We don't need more water, we need more drinkable water.

[MaTaRu]

Harvest rainwater, if you have a roof over your head start installing a rainwater harvesting system.

[Makilock]

The solution is birth control! I just learned of someone that has 8 children, that’s just disgusting! I think everyone should be limited to this one to two children. Birth control is the answer to all natural disasters looming. Stop having many kids, you aren’t cockroaches. And it’s sad that it’s usually only poor people that have nine kids per family, and when they move to more prosperous countries, they take the disgusting habit of having so many children to these countries and start putting a stress on their societies and resources. Stop having so many kids!!! Stop it, basta!!!

[Lord_Sesshomaru]

Vegans/Vegetarians be like: Sooo why not eating beef is out of the question?
Some Asians be like: Sooo why replaceing beef with grasshopper is out of the question?
Alexander Zarchin be like: Sooo why recycle water/ water desalination is out of the question?
Agenda 2030 be like: 🎵don't fret precious i'm here step away from the window go back to sleep🎵

[lupen_rein]

Central America is not going to suffer water scarcity. This is a misreading of the effects of climate change. Climate change will displace people in Central America, but this is more likely due to Hurricanes or other events like this instead of water scarcity, as this part of the world is known to have dense wet forests that won't run dry anytime soon.
Please be more thorough in differentiating between factors and correctly identifying them.

[zombiehunter]

Seems that it will be
War world water 3

[fidenemini]

this may sound cold but we don't have a water problem, we have an overpopulation problem, which is the root cause of all crisis we're facing