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Lack of water is fuelling conflicts worldwide!
Water 
gives life, but its scarcity can lead to chaos and mayhem. Said to be the main cause of the Six Day War, between Israel and its neighbours, water (or lack of it) has influenced tempers and tensions all over the world. So much so that Anwar Sadat, once he had signed the peace treaty with Israel said that the only way he could foresee another war with the former enemy would be if he had to protect his water resources.
The current conflict in Darfur region of Sudan, which has captured the world’s attention and become the cause celebre for many Hollywood stars, also has its roots in the water crisis gripping the region. The conflict that so far has claimed more than
450,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million and which pits the more prosperous north against the impoverished south shows no signs of abating. A combination of adverse environmental factors, drought, desertification and increase in the population has pushed cattle rearing, ethnic Arab nomads from the north into the land of non-Arab farming communities in the south. The tussle for limited water has snowballed into this major humanitarian crisis, which threatens to destabilise the entire region. Sudan has been experiencing record lows in rainfall for the past many decades, turning millions of hectares of semi–arid land into desert. Already 12% of the forest cover has been lost in the last 15 years. Now it turns out that there may be water available after all, albeit under the ground. Scientists from Boston University’s Remote Sensing Department have claimed to have found a huge underground lake in the region. Covering an area of 30,750 sq km, (about the size of the 10th biggest lake in the world), this underground miracle if realised to its full potential, could meet all present and future needs of the people in Darfur. Let’s hope there’s someone left to use it.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru
gives life, but its scarcity can lead to chaos and mayhem. Said to be the main cause of the Six Day War, between Israel and its neighbours, water (or lack of it) has influenced tempers and tensions all over the world. So much so that Anwar Sadat, once he had signed the peace treaty with Israel said that the only way he could foresee another war with the former enemy would be if he had to protect his water resources.The current conflict in Darfur region of Sudan, which has captured the world’s attention and become the cause celebre for many Hollywood stars, also has its roots in the water crisis gripping the region. The conflict that so far has claimed more than
450,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million and which pits the more prosperous north against the impoverished south shows no signs of abating. A combination of adverse environmental factors, drought, desertification and increase in the population has pushed cattle rearing, ethnic Arab nomads from the north into the land of non-Arab farming communities in the south. The tussle for limited water has snowballed into this major humanitarian crisis, which threatens to destabilise the entire region. Sudan has been experiencing record lows in rainfall for the past many decades, turning millions of hectares of semi–arid land into desert. Already 12% of the forest cover has been lost in the last 15 years. Now it turns out that there may be water available after all, albeit under the ground. Scientists from Boston University’s Remote Sensing Department have claimed to have found a huge underground lake in the region. Covering an area of 30,750 sq km, (about the size of the 10th biggest lake in the world), this underground miracle if realised to its full potential, could meet all present and future needs of the people in Darfur. Let’s hope there’s someone left to use it.Edit bureau: Amarpal Malhi
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
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