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Water wars: 21st century conflicts?

Source: Al Jazeera

As almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030, strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare for strife.

After droughts ravaged his parents’ farmland, Sixteen-year-old Hassain and his two-year-old sister Sareye became some of the newest refugees forced from home by war scarcity.

“There was nothing to harvest,” Hassain said through an interpreter during an interview at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya which is housing some 160,000 Somalis displaced by a lack of water. “There had been no rain in my village for two years. We used to have crops.” read more