Water Nationalism, Climate Anxiety, and the Myth of the Coming Water Wars.
Will future wars be fought over water? Global policymakers, politicians and the media promote a sense of catastrophism about the impact of climate change on cross-border water management between countries. These ‘climate water war’ narratives promote anxiety over water scarcity and often surface when droughts hit the headlines, but how likely are climate-change-induced water wars to occur in the future? Recent events suggest the story is more complicated—and far less apocalyptic than the popular scarcity narratives imply.
Read the text by Jeremy Allouche, Professorial Fellow, at ids, the institute of development studies
