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between communities and even to an international scale between bordering countries.

"Strained natural resources inevitably lead to strained relations between communities that are competing for the same dwindling supply of water and pasture land" reported Ernest Waititu. ("Drought Spurs Resource Wars", Ernest Waititu, The Independent, 2008) In the same article, he reported that conflicts arose in southern Ethiopia between Guji and Borena in June 2006 where hundreds died and approximately 23,000 people were displaced from their communities.

Such conflicts may have already existed between these communities over other causes however it is when water, the most important natural resources run out do communities become desperate and re-fuel into wars over water. Without viable solutions to solve the water crisis, wars between communities and nations such as Ethiopia and Kenya will only grow heavier, involving politics into what originally is a natural resource issue and casualties will increase as better weapons are available for the purpose of destruction.

References:
"Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya" - Pulitzer Center
http://www.pulitzercente r.org/showproject.cfm?id=55

"Dr ought Spurs Resource Wars" - The Independent
http://www.pulitzer center.org/openitem.cfm?id=915

"Southern African Water Conflicts: Are they Inevitable or Preventable" - Peter Ashton
http://www.dams.org/docs /kbase/submissions/opt147.pdf

" Water, the Looming Source of World Conflict" - Agence France Presse
http://www.globalpolicy. org/security/natres/water/2001 /0320cflt.htm

"Water and Violent Conflict" - OECD Report
http://www.oecd.org/data oecd/26/5/35785565.pdf

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