Will water become more valuable than oil?

Yes

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by Kevin Zarbock

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There is little doubt that as we progressively move through the next century and beyond that water will become more and more a scares resource. In India this might well be the case first more than perhaps any other place on the planet. With a population in access of a billion people only a relative small portion of the population has access to clean drink water that is fit for consumption. Africa in and around Lake Chad which is steadily shrinking more and more each year do to an increase of population and drought. Many counties depend on Lake Chads water for drinking water and as a source for irrigating crops. With out this resource millions could and will in all likelihood suffer damning consequences in the near future. Here perhaps the first wars might quiet possibly Europe in a part of the world that is already in the throws of a number of wars over tribal genocide and disputes over rites to other commodities that are not being shared fairly already, adding yet an other smoldering log of social tension to an already well kindled fire.

Still yet China in it's rapid extension to industrialization has failed to make adequate provisions so as to make sure that there is a source of clean drinking water fit for drinking and the use of farming as will. In Asia as in Africa expect this continues mater to manifest itself in the most violent fashions imaginable. For water is simply a commodity that is necessary for the survival of civilization and with out it nations might well parish. Nations will in all almost absolute certainty fight to the death for this life giving liquid.

Even here in the US there are already disputes to water rights in the west and in the south east too were drought has parched the water supply in Georgia most notably. With the continuing onset of global warming and drought as a consequence fro many populated areas of the Earth it will be just not as valuable as oil, but more. You can expect wars of the twenty first century to be fought over the stuff. Wars of the litigation sort first and than war as we generally think of the typical act in its more concise context.

Humanity can survive and it can adapt to the depleting oil source. It can not do so when it comes to water. Water unlike oil is detrimental to life. For drinking and for agriculture. The ramifications for the whole of humanity are dire indeed, and will in fact prove to be so unless provisions and steps of prevention are sought in the most aggressive and progressive of active masseurs. Conservation is an absolutely paramount must to achieve this as will corporation. It's possible in theory and very unlikely in reality. For history is residual in its very nature, and history dictates that in the past as is in the present nations will go to war over these impending shortages. The need for the publics attention here and abroad can not be stressed enough.

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