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Water-Peace Nexus // Water Stress is Helping Drive Conflict and Migration. How Should the Global Community Respond?

By Charles Iceland. Water stress and drought are as old as civilization, and while human beings have devised many ways to guard against these threats, economies have evolved in ways that make us more vulnerable.

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Recent water-related tragedies in Syria, Africa’s Sahel region and elsewhere present the prospect of darker times ahead, but there are many things we can do right now to improve the chance for a soft landing and a brighter future. This won’t happen on a business-as-usual path, however. We are going to need to do things very differently, and most people do not like change. But if the choice is change or die—and it could be—then clearly we need to change our relationship to water.

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