The next Global conflict

[Andre]

Its been raining here for eight days straight now. Runs straight out into the ocean for the most part unless its caught in our old dams as our state goverments are so bad at nuts and bolts management and cant afford to build anymore.Cause they are money and blame shifters only. These fuckwits here have put us in debt for ever with an oversized desalination plant. Its not stopped raining here since they built it so its not producing and pumping into already full dams, but still it has to produce and run so it doesnt seize up.(imagine the costs)!

One smart farmer out in the flatter inland areas where it doesnt rain in the summer, got smart,he dammed up the small creek a number of times through his whole property (he just built walls up slowly and sectioned off his creek. In winter when the rains fell he held the weight of water longer before it spilled over and went onto the next farm. This extra weight made the water go out under the ground and fill up all the old fissures and cracks in his land. His land is green and treed all year now, the others right next door to him are dust for half the year then all their top soil gets washed away cause they havent the moisture to support small growth to bind it together.

[El Kabong]

Well I guess when water isn't free and people start really needing it then we'll be really happy we took time to work on all that gun control legislation


Ooooh also if there's ever a problem with the food supply it'll be nice that there are fewer hunters too eh Missy ...you have no issue eating a cow that was born & raised in captivity on a factory farm but use a gun to shoot a deer and ***GASP**** eat the venison and all of a sudden you're a god damned murderer....why don't you worry about the dirt poor Eastern European picking your veggies?!?!?


Fucking ridiculous

[Howlin Mad Missy]

what a surprise lyle couldn't keep out of it eh? Typical yank...

[El Kabong]

what a surprise lyle couldn't keep out of it eh? Typical yank...

Go eat a banger!

[Master]

Wherever it is, it will be about religion.

[greynotsoold]

Interesting article in this months Smithsonian about water issues in the mid-east. Apparently, between 2003 and 2009 the area comprised of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran went through 117 million acre feet of groundwater, more than any other place besides northern India. In Iraq there have been murders of irrigation officials and clan conflicts over water. In Syria, a drought that began in 06 drove 80,000 farmers and unhappy, unemployed guys = conflict. Meanwhile, Turkey's dam and hydropower construction has cut the flow downstream to Iraq by 80% and Syria by 40%.

[El Kabong]

Interesting article in this months Smithsonian about water issues in the mid-east. Apparently, between 2003 and 2009 the area comprised of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran went through 117 million acre feet of groundwater, more than any other place besides northern India. In Iraq there have been murders of irrigation officials and clan conflicts over water. In Syria, a drought that began in 06 drove 80,000 farmers and unhappy, unemployed guys = conflict. Meanwhile, Turkey's dam and hydropower construction has cut the flow downstream to Iraq by 80% and Syria by 40%.

Tribal Clan conflicts......ya don't say ....and here I was thinking those people were the nice ones and us Westerners were the heartless murderers. Missy, Kirkland, Miles....you lied to me!

[Kirkland Laing]

Interesting article in this months Smithsonian about water issues in the mid-east. Apparently, between 2003 and 2009 the area comprised of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran went through 117 million acre feet of groundwater, more than any other place besides northern India. In Iraq there have been murders of irrigation officials and clan conflicts over water. In Syria, a drought that began in 06 drove 80,000 farmers and unhappy, unemployed guys = conflict. Meanwhile, Turkey's dam and hydropower construction has cut the flow downstream to Iraq by 80% and Syria by 40%.

It's even worse in Yemen. This kind of problemis going to happen all over the place though.

[TitoFan]

It's like with any other natural resource. We (civilization) use it, abuse it, and misuse it. Then... when shortages start peeking around the corner, we start wringing our hands, fighting with each other, and we can't even agree on whether it's a problem or not. Unfortunately, foresight sometimes isn't one of our strong points as a society in general. If it won't be a problem by next week... then screw it. It's not important enough to worry about.

I've been to small, tropical islands, such as Aruba, where all their water comes from desalination plants. Aruba has no natural fresh water supplies, so this is their only source of fresh water. Obviously, this is not the answer for everyone.

I agree with Kirk in that it will likely become the cause of regional conflicts, if not global ones.