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| Yes | 78% | 487 votes | Total: 623 votes | |
| No | 22% | 136 votes |
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Fresh drinking water is rapidly becoming a scarce commodity. We humans need water to live, and while we can survive for even weeks with little to no food, we die in a matter o...read more
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by Barb
I imagine there will definitely, be wars over water ownership. There are many places around the world where the situation is becoming desperate. The world is made up of seventy ...read more
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By simply watering our yards during the heat of the day, a silent war has already begun. Laws have started popping up in many areas in an effort to reach out to people who are ...read more
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Today in many parts of the world there are already conflicts over water rights, so it is very conceivable that wars could be started or fueled by people's ability to use water. ...read more
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by Akram Saqib
Water, the basic necessity of life is influencing the politics world wide.Water had become the bone of contention in the past.It is evident from the squeezing resources of water...read more
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Our earth seems to be fresh out of water.Well,not yet,but we are running out of fresh water.Less than two percent of the earth's water supply is fresh water.Scientists claim tha...read more
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Is water worth fighting for? In history past, wars were often fought for access to water, usually in the form of ports for shipping. However, the water wars of the future will h...read more
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I live on the shores of one of the five Great Lakes - and as the globe heats up and stories abound of the water shortages in countries far away and parts of the United States no...read more
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One day, in the not so distant future, we may be fighting wars over water! War with other countries is bad enough, but the future water wars may pit state against state, or one ...read more
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by Ian Loft
It could be said that wars are already in progress because of water in many places of the world today. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Middle East flow through many nati...read more
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War is inevitable for the ownership of water as we have seen there are small scale fights,conflicts and quarrels taking place in community level across the globe specially in th...read more
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by Chuck Moyer
The human race has a long history of staking ownership claims to both territories and resources; in what seems like an innate trait linked not only to instinctive survival behav...read more
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At this time, only 1% of the worlds water is available for human and animal consumption. That is not to say that the 1% is fit for those species to utilize safely. The lakes, w...read more
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Forget oil. The commodity that will be fought over in the near future will be water. It may be difficult for developed nations to understand the need for clean, safe water and...read more
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Don't look now, it's already happening. Wars are being fought as you read this over a simple, free and global natural resource; fresh, potable water. Darfur, Kenya, the horn ...read more
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I live in the south and war has been declared between the states again, this time over the ownership of water! You would think that all the south has been through with previous ...read more
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by Marie Devine
People will fight over water and are fighting over water to keep themselves alive and it will continue if we do not make available changes. Conflicts come well before wars; war...read more
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by Gloria Diaz
Water. It has gained more prominence as a drink these past few years. As a high school student (and even now), my drink of choice is cola. If someone had told me as an 18-year-o...read more
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A fight is brewing right now in the Sunshine State over who owns - and therefore who controls - the state's most abundant and profitable natural resource. Two fast growing re...read more
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Water wars are already in progress, most noticeably in Africa, where about 13 million people have been displaced. We can't separate food from water, and the recent food riot...read more
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No, there is no likelihood of wars being waged in the time-honored sense. There may be litigation galore, disputes and territorial discord that even develop political overtones,...read more
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by Lana Evans
There are droughts, but global warming also brings floods. I'm not sure whether we can actually drink the melted icecaps, but I'll bet someone has the brains to figure our how t...read more
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Water Wars. What a thought. People fighting over water. Some countries get too much others get too little to live on. Over the next few years people are becoming concerned t...read more
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by V. Kumar
One can expect struggles for water, but most of them would get converted to war only if there are other political reasons as well. Any wars involving control over water are m...read more
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by Joshua Jones
Does anyone know what they call our planet in scientific circles? It is called the "blue planet". They call it this because three-fourths of the world is covered in water. I don...read more
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by Gina Barr
This question reminds me of some sci-fi movie I was forced to sit through with a man I was once interested in. Man had essentially destroyed himself and what was left was a bun...read more
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by Sean Curtis
There is no doubt that a water shortage is looming large on the horizon. Scientists are experts are already beginning to spread the word publicly. More and more, people are beco...read more
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by James McMann
Will Wars Be Fought Over Water? No. No wars in the conventional and purist sense of Army versus Army for control of potable water sources will be fought. While it remains un...read more
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Fighting over water is as old as the hills. In times past, most notably in the old west when settlers were establishing themselves in the new world, water rights were sacred an...read more
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Water ownership as the sole cause of was is unlikely. It may be one of the many reasons but it is not enough by itself to start a war. Not all countries with serious water sho...read more
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