I have said in the past that it is the next resource that will be fought over. Not just in Africa, but the world.


Running his fingers over a map of Burkina Faso, stabbing at a dozen vowel-laden names of towns and villages, Abdramane Sow traces out what senior international officials are warning could be the frontline in Africa's next major war. These are all places where local communities have come to blows over who will use the available water.

In one village close to the border with Nigeria, women with fistulas were stopped from using water points because it was thought they would spread infection. In another village in the far north of the country, deep inside the desert, access to water points is being limited according to peoples' religion. On the outskirts of the country's second city Bobo Dioulasso, agriculturalists, animal herders, a local village, and the state water company were at loggerheads recently over access to a reservoir.


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I agree, it's going to be a world wide problem. We are seeing a lot more water pollution right here in the U.S. with record number of beaches being closed for swimming due to unsafe conditions of the water.

look at the ME, there is hardly enough water now, what will happen in say 10 yrs.?

Good poibnt CHUQ. Maybe we can swap oil for water, if we happen to have any that isn't polluted ourselves. Can you imagine sending super tankers of freash water to other countries.

You want an idea where the next big ME prob is gonna be? IMO, it will be Jordan.