The most valuable commodity on the planet is running out – water

25% of the world’s population are running out of water according to the World Resources Institute and this is predicted to grow to 50% by 2050. The most vulnerable countries include India, with the largest population globally, and the entire Middle East and North Africa essentially. And it’s not just third world nations. Add to the list California and New Mexico in America and you may find that your home is bordering on a desert too.
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“Water stress is the biggest crisis no one is talking about. Its consequences are in plain sight in the form of food insecurity, conflict and migration, and financial instability”

Dr Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute

17 countries top the most critical list and although my country is not on it, my home city of Cape Town was the first major city in the world last year to almost run out of water. It came less than 100 days short of “Day Zero” that summer. This is the city that hosted the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The entire city of 4 million, except the very poorest, who had their municipal taps kept on, would have only 200 water points from which to go and collect water daily. It got close to the red line but never quite went over it fortunately.

“Mad Max and the Water Wars” is not some dystopian future, it's here today. And it’s coming to a city near you. Chennai in India is now having the same water crisis this year. Researchers are saying that hotter, drier weather is becoming something of a trend globally, as we can see by last month’s summer heat waves in Europe and UK, which broke world records in places for hottest temperatures ever recorded for July in some cities.

You may not live in the Middle East, North or Southern Africa, but many people do. And with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan also on the critically endangered list of top 60 countries, we have a quarter of the world’s population in danger, or one drought season away from disaster.

And this is not just a third world problem because on the same list we find Italy, Spain, Portugal and the capital of the EU – Belgium – all on the red list of “high baseline water stressed nations”. And America is fifty years away from disaster, which sounds fine but with some states already under severe risk of drought, the truth is sinking in faster than we might imagine for the top economy in the planet. Australia went through similar water shortages in the recent past but was able to take steps to alleviate their problems, so with proper water management the disaster can be mitigated. It means recycling waste water for example.

This might be why the Bush family bought up 40 500 hectares of land in Paraguay a few years ago. It is a piece of land that accesses the largest underground water aquifer in the country, called the Gaurani Aquifer. This is the source of water for an entire country, and it has been bought by the ex president of America for personal and private use. So your nation’s very survival is being threatened by one family in the coming water wars, where masses will potentially first go into “Mad Max” mode as they starve to death, and then they will simply drop dead one by one while the Bush family and America suck the life waters from the weaker nations.

The Americans have a military base full of troops in the region already so the empire is one step ahead of this water war and global drought that is approaching. The Americans can suck off the life blood of the poorer nations, happily getting more and more obese while Paraguay and others dry up and wither away like dead leaves in the Fall of the world. Talk about Imperialist crimes. Good American citizens knows little of the crimes their nation commits daily all over the planet while their propaganda fake news spews lies to keep their dumbed down residents in a blind stupor as to the crimes they are being implicated in. You’ve heard of blood diamonds, well what about the blood oil, and blood water and the blood money that Americans enjoy in their fake lives subsidised by our blood and death. Wake up guys.

Water is the new oil and the empire want their pound of it – your pound of it, so what are you going to do about it? I’m going to write and inform the American people of the crimes they are implicated in by their voted government, and I’m writing to tell the rest of us to beware the empire, whether America or China because they are coming for your resources and you need to be informed.

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The only way to solve our water problem is drastic depopulation or massive energy inputs. In either case, it looks bad for the rest of the environment and will create more problems. Overpopulation issues are also primarily an energy problem (whether it is not enough or too much waste, etc) Therefore I like to think that we are actually in an energy crisis anyway you look at it. Bottom line is we need cheap and clean and abundent energy or we need to dramatically change our lives and our world.

Some proper management is the solution, with empathy for all living beings, as opposed to hoarding for a tribe. We are all in the world together, and I believe their are enough resources for all people if they are properly managed and distributed. As you say population management and control would be necessary too in the long run. Unplanned pregnancy is foolish and not fair to anyone, including the child as well as the parents.

I recall watching a documentary about how Mexico city uses so much water that their water table is disappearing and the city is sinking. It's also a huge population (~9 million) that's going to run of water.

Hopefully we make some serious inroads in conservation and purification techniques.

Good point, Mexico City and other heavily populated cities in the world could become crisis points if the water situation worsens. It could lead to all sorts of problems as the knock on effect occurs.

Quite a wake up call...water is never enough no matter what. Although technically speaking it is easy to create artificial water (since it's just two chemicals which you can get everywhere), something still has to be done...

No one wants to see a war started for water. That wouldn't be fun, imagine in the end people in the war killing each other just to drain their blood to get the water within them...ew.

The old sci fi movie Dune, based on the book, tells a fantasy story of desert dwellers who need water desperately.

Good info there, many thanks, desalination is a great solution, we have some plants here, though very expensive here still apparently. Makes sense though in the long run. Australia are showing the way.

Wars will definitely be fought over the most precious commodity on earth!

Water is something too many are taking for granted, yes you name countries, rightfully so, we need to think about thieves and bottled water like Nestle as well... Corruption and greed knows no end!

Yes, these big names are well-informed and ahead of the herd when they harvest all the water resources of entire nations for private use. I boycott Nestle and never buy their products. There are other entire countries I keenly boycott divest and sanction too.

Don’t worry too much about the majority of America. With Donald Trump at the helm, a good portion of the general population will self-destruct. Our homeland violence is at an all time high. The upper 1% is doing everything they can to have power over resources and retain their status under any circumstance. The majority of US citizens are totally unaware of what is really happening.

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Good to hear that you are informed and can tell the others. We are in a propaganda war for the minds of the masses, and information is our tool.

Likewise! Keep teaching and informing all who will listen.

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There is so much problems it is so hard to know from where to start and how to address them properly.

Yes it can be overwhelming so we need to think globally and act locally, protect ourselves from over stressing about things we can't change and work on ourselves. Then with extra energy left we can educate and inform others.

lately indeed the atmosphere of Memeng is very giving if we see the sun rising until sunset ..

Thanks for your comment, good to be in touch @bosferi123.

The world is over 2/3 water so it does baffle me how we haven't found a way to purify that water to quench the thirst of the masses. I know there's extensive research going on with the use of graphene which you may want to look into as well as it could be a very important development if that can be used to tap in to one of the most abundant resources of the planet.

I'm sure those in power will probably have a say about it if they haven't already though. As we all know, corruption is pretty prevalent...

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Graphene could well be a great breakthrough opportunity. It is unfortunate that those in power place profit above people a lot of the time. Like when JP Morgan used Edison instead of Tesla because he could make so much more money using copper wire for electrics than giving it to the people for free, and cleaner, as Tesla showed. Ruined the world. Then there's the use of oil, global disaster... all for profit above ecology and humanity.

Yes I remember when I first read about Edison vs Tesla and being saddened about the whole story. How Tesla was then portrayed as a mad man and then all the suffering he had because of it.

It's a shame but chasing numbers seems to be better than chasing betterment of the human race

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WRT to US, it will be the ultra-wealthy and those in power who survive here. The US is not very good at taking care of most of its citizens, preferring instead to favor those who can buy... I mean, DONATE money to politicians. We allow bottled water companies to sink their own wells into the water table and then in times of drought continue to take water out and sell it, despite the drought. While the rest of us face water bans at those times, the bottled water companies do not! The US has moved beyond "f__k the poor" to "f__k anyone who is not ultrawealthy." Just today the Trump admin rolled back more environmental protections to allow development on protected lands, including drilling. At a time when we need to reduce use of fossil fuels, he and GOP are trying to increase the use. George Carlin said it well: "They call it the American Dream, because you'd have to be asleep to believe it."

Well said sir, the screws are being tightened on the masses of humanity by the ultra rich, and the ecology of the planet is taking strain. The planet is finite, but capitalism and the quest for profit is infinite, it seems. Such short term vision in the leaders makes me wonder who is really in control of the levers of power.

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