What is an example of a water conflict in geography?
Harmon Robel
2025-07-03 23:01:00
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The conflict over water relates to the gap between demand and supply. Shortage - Shortages of water have become common place in many areas of the world – too many areas receive low levels of water supply relative to basic needs. Sahel, South America, China, India and Pakistan all experience SSS. A situation with serious international implications is the demand for the waters of the Euphrates by Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The Euphrates is the primary water source for millions of people who depend on it for power generation and irrigation in an extremely arid climate. Conflict over water in this area is decades old. Full implementation of the GAP system of dams could result in a 40% reduction of the Euphrates’ flow into Syria and an 80% reduction of flow into Iraq. This will reduce the electrical output of Syria’s Tabqa Dam by up to 12%, while Iraq could lose irrigation water to 1 million hectares. Syria and Iraq have already threatened war over their access to the Euphrates. Egypt has threatened war, to preserve its access to fresh water. Ethiopia has already built some 200 small dams on the Nile since emerging from civil war and famine.
Pete Brakus
2025-06-28 05:48:48
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An example of conflict at a local scale is in Peru’s Ica Valley. The Ica valley is in the dry, coastal region of Peru, and is one of the few places in the world, where high-quality asparagus can grow all year round. With support from the USA and the World Bank, Peru started commercial growing in mid 1990s. But asparagus takes a lot of water to grow and now the Ica’s aquifer is dangerously low. 317 million cubic meters of water is needed from the aquifer to grow the exported asparagus. The rate of abstraction for large-scale commercial agricultural purposes is exceeding domestic and industrial use. Many local people are suffering a lack of accessible water, with commercial farmers diverting aquifer flow to their farms. Two wells used by 18,000 people have completely dried up. Local farmers are reduced to 10 litres per person per day, despite the WHO recommendation of 50 litres a day to remain healthy.
Emelie Boyer
2025-06-18 02:45:21
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The potential for conflicts to occur between users within a country, and internationally over local and trans-boundary water sources, such as the Nile or Mekong. When the demand for water overtakes the available supply and there are key stakeholders desperate for that water, there is potential for conflict, or what has been called 'water wars'. The Nile is the world's longest river, at 6,700 km, and 11 countries compete for its water. Currently, in 2017, 300 million people lived within the Nile basin and such is the rate of population growth that total is set to double by 2019. All these people will need the waters of the Nile for domestic consumption and for growing crops. Potential flash points have been dams and barrages built in Sudan and Ethiopia that deprive downstream Egypt of its fair share of Nile water. Other shared rivers that could become battlefields of water wars are the Jordan and the Tigris-Euphrates in the Middle-East, and the Indus and Ganges in the Indian subcontinent. Conflicts ranging from minor disputes to wars can occur at any scale from local to international.
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