Water wars

By: Vandana Shiva

Published by: Universal Economic Essays Feltrinelli

"Water and insufficient in Israel, India, China, Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, Ghana and the United States. Water wars are no longer a predictable event in the future. Are already in place: real conflicts that are occurring in every society.

Be it Punjab or Palestine, political violence often stems from competition for possession of scarce and vital water resources. Many of these political conflicts are hidden.

Who controls the power prefer to mask the water wars, making them appear as ethnic or religious clashes, although in reality regions along the rivers are mostly inhabited by pluralistic society with a great diversity of human groups, languages and customs " .