Water and war – a map of conflicts

Records of water-related conflicts go back 4,000 years to Sumeria, where the neighboring city-states of Umma and Lagash fought over water and irrigated lands. In that instance, the attacks went back and forth for a century. In the new edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July 2024), Morgan Shimabuku provides a Water Conflict Chronology, mapping 1634 water conflicts on the globe. Morgan Shimabuku is a senior researcher at the Pacific Institute where she investigates water and conflict, water resilience, and the impacts of climate change on frontline communities.

 

 

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