(ANSA) – BRUSSELS – The lack of water and’ destinata ad accentuarsi e avra’ devastating social consequences, the social tensions that will multiply until it becomes more wars’ harsh than those fought over oil. The warning from Brussels different personalities’ including Mikhail Gorbachev and Prince Albert of Monaco, asking world leaders to put, in anti-crisis measures, Management is also a more’ equitable and responsible management of water resources. ”L'accesso all'acqua and’ a fundamental human right, and leaders who are going to redefine the architecture of the global economy must keep into consideration”, said today the former USSR leaders, President of the World Political Forum, opening the conference Making Peace with the water, hosted by the European Parliament. For Gorbachev, the supply of water resources ”e’ a political problem that world leaders are not facing the right way”. One problem, explains, ”exacerbated by climate change”. Global warming will alter’ precipitation and bring’ a reduction of drinking water between 20% e il 30%, according to data cited by the UN President. A wandsuffer’ primarily l'Agricoltura (80% water is used to irrigate the fields) and the collapse of the crops will bring’ an increase in prices. But in addition to economic losses, even in most economies’ robust, more danger’ remains the great instability’ social, especially in areas where population pressure and’ greater and where access to water and’ under the control of political forces. As happened a few years ago with the tension between Lebanon and Israel for the control of the border waters: ”Sharon made it clear to the Lebanese war that he was willing to pay him if they had camped out on the lakes on the border claims”, Gorbachev told. According to a UN report cited by President, about one billion people worldwide suffer from lack of water and not only in developing countries but ”in Eastern Europe, where the current and’ polluted”. Also, Gorbachev added, ”80% of diseases are the result of the scarcity’ water resources”. The scarcity and’ determined mainly by the fact that ”water consumption increases more’ fast population growth”, said the head of the Directorate General of EU Commission, Karl Falkenberg, and that’ joined to the appeal launched today in Brussels with leaders from around the world: act now, not only to combat the crisis but to avoid conflict over water.(ANSA).Reuters
