Almost half of humanity may face water scarcity by 2030 and strategists claim to prepare for strife and may in future suggest injecting some mutated DNA to convert the poor humans into elusive marine amphibians w/o any emotions or reproductive capabilities. Will be no protests, oppositions or outrages or wars – just AI nod 🐸 जिसकी लाठी उसकी भैंस 🐂 Indian states Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are fighting over Cauvery river, instigated by some nationalistic seasoned politicians and their opportunistic allies. Odisha raising concerns over the construction of barrages on Mahanadi, and Chhattisgarh saying Mahanadi issue is being unnecessarily politicized as the state was proceeding with the projects only as per Central Water Commission and some corporate development strategies.
Same with Punjab, Bengal, Bihar, Haryana, Delhi and many other regions and counties elsewhere. Water scarcity and sharing are issues exacerbated by demographic pressures, raping nature, loots, migrations, climate change and deliberate pollution. Loot-wing and its development cronies are trying to force us to accept collective suicide in the name of its brand of religion politics & some big national Empire or Caliphate. If we sacrifice the planet to appease populists, posterity will not forgive us, forget god.
Officials keeps on meeting to consider various issues concerning water and new projects in river basins of Mahanadi, Cauvery, Indus, etc and resolve the disputes between states. Joint Control Board, proposed by some memorandum of understanding (MoU) between many states were not properly constituted on-time to review the progress, execution and preparation of irrigation, tourism and power projects and to discuss and resolve all issues. Odisha Govt had alleged that Chhattisgarh had undertaken construction of barrages on Mahanadi without consulting which will adversely impact agriculture, availability of drinking water, environment, lifestyle of local natives, power generation and more.
Instead of risky war between real armies in combats, we only see soft divide & rule tactical fights over natural resources affecting non-combatants like many other great empires had as a mix since dawn of civilizations. While with rapid population growth, and increased industrial demand, water withdraws have tripled over the last 50 years, so wars of the future can well be fought over blue gold, as thirsty people, opportunistic politicians and powerful corporations battle for dwindling resources. Scarcity is defined as each person in an area having access to less than 1000 cubic meters of water a year. The areas where water scarcity is the biggest problem are some of the same places where political conflicts are rife, leading to potentially explosive situations.
Unequal power relations within states and conflicts between ethnic groups and social classes will be the greatest source of global tensions rising from deprivation. Water too often is treated as a commodity, as an instrument with which one population group can suppress another. Beverage giants and Bottled Water Brands get contracts in the name of some industrial development and then build their kingdom of fortresses around the water sources, taking drinking / irrigation water and even forcefully emptying and diverting river beds away from local natives, what a world?
Underground water is being pumped so aggressively around the globe that land is sinking, tetrapods jumping, civil wars are being waged, and agriculture is being transformed – sugar cane and rice growths. But people still have the right to expect access to a basic life resource like water by virtue of being human, regardless of the language spoken, religion practiced, social situation they are born into, land politics or bias in legal systems. Nearly two billion people rely on groundwater that is considered under threat, the Indus Basin aquifer in northwest India and Pakistan is officially threatened among many others.
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