The Water Wars - The US invades Canada?

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The Water Wars.

The world is made up of 70% of water.

Curiously enough, so is the human body.

But only 3% of the worlds water is fresh, and much of that is caught up in the poles, the glaciers and the ice-sheets in places such as .

Of all the worlds water, only 1% of it is fresh and available to human beings.

20% of people, or 1.1 billion human beings have no access to fresh water.

Because of related sanitary problems, this means that some five million people a year die directly from a lack of access to fresh water.

Countries like Britain have declared droughts even in winter because of the profilgate use of water; gardens, loo flushes, dish washing machines you name it, it isn't hard, we all waste water.

The government is attempting to buy the content of Canadas Arctic rivers so that it can feed the insatiable thirst of gas guzzling, water wasting millions.

What if doesn't want to sell?

Or will only sell at a price that it wishes to do so at?

What would the do if decided to set an 'extortionate' price?

Would the invade and seize the 'water fields'?

Okay, it's fanciful but not so far fetched stuff.

It has recently been revealed that the considered invading the around 1974 when the price of a barrel of oil was jacked up whether and other allies liked it or not.

Why not ?

Elsewhere, growing populations in the have already seen skirmishes, for once not related to religeon per se, between the and , with seeking to divert water away from some villages to satiate its own necessities.

In and , mighty rivers are being damned and diverted to feed the need of each countries vested interests.

But the reason is clear. Billions of people each day have to travel six miles or more simply to fetch enough water, usually diseased, to survive.

There is a simple truth in all of this.

As resources run out, people will compete and ultimately fight over whatever dwindling resource is the issue of the day.

Oil, water, whatever it takes to keep themselves secure.

Apologists say that the war wasn't about oil, and I tend to agree.

But it's difficult to see the and getting quite so excited about a beaten tin-pot, brutal dictator without either an economic or a military interest.

Or both.

 

yechydda,
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
People have long thought that the battle of Armageddon would be fought over oil. I have always contended that it would be over water and not oil. The bible says that nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. What does every nation and kingdom under heaven have in common? Water.
What is becoming more and more scarce as each day passes? Water.
Oil we can live and function without if need be but water we must have. It really is very frightning when one takes time to set down and read about our situation concerning the world's water supply and how it is being overly tapped into and how it will eventually run out.
Some of course will scoff as they always do and call me a prophet of doom but the facts will still remain never-the-less.
The real weapon of mass destruction is the world's water shortage. GCJ
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gemcity,

I don't see why people should call you a prophet of doom.

The looming water crisis is very real.

In 1991, during the first gulf war, there was a serious suggestion that rather than bomb Iraq, simply divert the Tigris and Euphrates, Iraq would collapse in a trice.

As global warming continues, the glaciers will continue to retreat and the oceans will rise.

There will be even less fresh water available.

yechydda,
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not if we develop a reliable way to desalinate ocean water. WIth enough demend, there will be big move in that direction.