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the US, consider Sudan led by an integralist Islamic regime, supporter of terrorist Islamic groups in all the world and responsible of the genocide taking place in Darfur. In this case, we can consider a war between these two Countries is even more likely than between Turkey and Syria, with water as the main conflict cause.

3) The most difficult situation, maybe, is just at the border between Palestine. Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are all quarrelling among them not only for the well known political reasons, but also for water use along the whole course of the Jordan Rive.

The sources of this river (251 Km / 156 miles) are in South Lebanon and it flows southward until the Dead Sea, of which it's the main tributary, after having fed the Sea of Galilee, at the border between Israel and Syria. Its flow is already very reduced for the great caption performed by Israel and Palestine for agriculture and civil uses (about 70-90% of its water) and the other Countries advance claims on these waters, the same used to baptize St. John and Jesus Christ.
This reduction is accelerating the evaporation and shrinking of the Dead Sea, that really risks to become a "dead" sea (or better, lake) in the true sense of the word.

The environmentalists are also worried about pollution, above all, in the intermediate stretch between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, due to the urban, farming and industrial wastes discharged by the Countries around it and by the lack of cooperation for the common management of this resource.

So, considering the dryness of that area (especially in Jordan and Syria) and the high political tension for the Arab-Palestinian/Israel conflict, this would be a further pretext for a conflict.

The problem is that Jordan River waters seem to be largely insufficient for everybody, if we consider the extreme difficulty of using the extremely salty waters of the Dead Sea, the growth of the population and the economic development that will have to take place in this area, above all, after a definitive end of the political conflict.
Today, the only possible solution is looking for new underground sweet water sources on both sides of the Jordan River basin, although very deep underground.

4) Another delicate situation is across the border between India and Pakistan, already divided by a politic conflict since their independence (1947). The conflict also regards the course of the Indus River (3200 Km, with a watershed of about 1,165,000 Km2), with its upper course in the Indian Kashmir and the central and lower course flowing in Pakistan across fertile lands surrounded by dry and desert areas.

Already 4 wars have occurred to date and whatever Indian dam project on the upper course of the Indus River would cause a hard reaction by Pakistan, worried for its water supplies, just where this Country has still strong territorial claims. The Indus River, in fact, is the only main river of Pakistan that doesn't control the sources of its upper tributaries (from the glaciers of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, near the border between India and the western Tibet) and is in the most vulnerable situation, respect to India, given that the whole Pakistani economy depends on this great river.

The political conflict between India and Pakistan is surely worsened by the problem of water and it's, potentially, the most dangerous, given that both Countries have atomic bombs.

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