{"id":150936,"date":"2022-11-23T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/water-wars-causes-and-possible-solutions"},"modified":"2022-11-23T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:24:31","slug":"water-wars-causes-and-possible-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/water-wars-causes-and-possible-solutions","title":{"rendered":"Water wars: Causes and possible solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-wars-causes-and-possible-solutions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will today\u2019s wars over oil be over water in the future? For years this question has been at the heart of a scientific debate on the causes of these wars and how they should be studied.<\/p>\n<p>A study published in the prestigious <i>Nature Sustainability<\/i> by a group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano has investigated the phenomenon, also in light of \u201cnew\u201d types of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/conflict\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conflict<\/a> in which paramilitary groups seem to capitalize on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+stress\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental stress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to define the relationship between water and conflict, speaking only of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+availability\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water availability <\/a>\u2014or lack thereof\u2014is not enough: in fact, conflicts tend to be associated with specific and complex socio-hydrological conditions, which in turn deal with the socio-economic value of water as a form of livelihood, especially in agriculture, and with the effects that human use of water has on the accessibility of this resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will today\u2019s wars over oil be over water in the future? For years this question has been at the heart of a scientific debate on the causes of these wars and how they should be studied. A study published in the prestigious Nature Sustainability by a group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}