Iñigo and Fabio

Water Conflicts

Water Conflicts are problems within countries, cities or towns over the access to water. There are many different reasons why water conflicts occur. They may be due to meteorological reasons (usually due to low precipitations in an area). Many time there are problems in the water management of a country, therefore water conflicts sometimes occur due to political reasons. Unfortunately water conflicts occur frequently in less-developed countries, particularly in Africa. This impoverishes even more the people in those areas and in many cases the lack of water even kills people. That is not the only problem which surrounds water conflicts. Also water shortages create huge social unrest which in many occasions has resulted in a civil war.

Water Wars:  Water wars occur when there is a huge social unrest about the water shortages in an area. Many wars are rebels of an area against there government due to their bad management over water. Other times wars are because people want to get as much water as possible and use violent methods to get what they want. Examples where these things happen are Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.