While many countries in North African and the Middle East are facing political uprisings, hopefully the looming water crisis will bring countries together to solve the problems related to water shortages. Ekklesia reports on the need for a “blue peace” to solve Middle East water crisis:
Water shortages in the Middle East could lead to social unrest unless urgent action is taken to transform a potential crisis into an opportunity for a “new form of peace”, according to a new report presented in Geneva.
“You are looking at a huge social and political crisis,” said Sundeep Waslekar, president of the Mumbai-based Strategic Foresight Group, which drew up the report, ‘The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water’.
He said the crisis would result from a decline in the availability of water in the region, which would have repercussions on food crop production, and might in turn lead in turn to migrations from water deficit areas.