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Related: About this forumMapping The World's Water Conflicts Shows Trouble Ahead
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031829/visualized/mapping-the-worlds-water-conflicts-shows-trouble-aheadIf the wars of the past tended to be about territory and oil, the wars of the future could be about water. Much of the world already suffers from water stress, and the shortages are only likely to grow. A 2012 report by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence forecast that demand for water could exceed supply by as much as 40% by 2030, and that parts of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East are all set for intense water competition.
A world map from the June issue of Popular Science shows where disputes could break out. It's based on research from Oregon State University, which tracked about 2,000 "incidents" involving water between 1990 and 2008. The bigger circles show the river basins with the most hostile events, with the Middle East and South Asia figuring strongly.
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Mapping The World's Water Conflicts Shows Trouble Ahead (Original Post)
flamingdem
Jul 2014
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littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)1. Kicking. Thank you. nt
pbmus
(12,418 posts)2. I see more water than land in your map ... ???
Is this the new oil scare, we are running out of easy to get oil, so we have to charge more ...?
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)4. What is the salient characteristic of all that water you see?
NaCl...
pbmus
(12,418 posts)5. IBTS-Greenhouse ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_biotectural_system
"The energy of operation is 0.45 kWh per cubic metre of distilled water in the full scale version.[2] This performance is more than 10x better than the records set by desalination plants in Dubai and Perth according to official numbers given by the respective authorities."
"The energy of operation is 0.45 kWh per cubic metre of distilled water in the full scale version.[2] This performance is more than 10x better than the records set by desalination plants in Dubai and Perth according to official numbers given by the respective authorities."
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)6. Ah. Another techno-cornucopian.
Good luck with that.
pbmus
(12,418 posts)7. Good luck in selling your $1 bottles of water ...
the hysteria of not enough will always be with us ...
NickB79
(19,109 posts)8. So, where in the world are these operating currently?
Oh wait, they're concepts on paper, not real-world structures that would take decades to scale up at best. And in the meantime, we have billions of people in need of more clean water in the present day, with some countries almost to the verge of going to war over said water resources.
pbmus
(12,418 posts)9. You picked door #3 ....
and all along the prize was in door #1 ....
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Germany is looking to start and many other forward thinking countries are investigating this civil engineering creation.
http://issuu.com/where-energy-meets-water/docs/mwh2o-february2012/37