Water Wars
Dear readers, Welcome to my blog! This is the introductory post for my blog on the subject of water politics in Africa. The scope of this topic is, as you can imagine, widely interpretable and sparks great debates, I will thus be specifying my area of discussion for the following posts on war over waters, and how some of these conflicts have been attempted to be resolved . According to the UN, water withdrawal rates have seen a threefold increase (UN, 2015) over the past 5 decades and the global threat of water scarcity has levelled severity with terrorism, cyber security and climate change (WEF, 2017). Overuse and mismanagement of water resources in Africa have fuelled unrest in certain parts of the continent, in many cases causing civil and international conflicts (Goldenberg, 2014). This blog will give an overview of such recent and ongoing conflicts and a closer discussion of literature and stimuli from the media will paint a detailed contextual picture of the current po