The Water Wars.

The world is made up of 70% of water.

Curiously enough, so is the human body.

But only 3% of the worlds water is fresh, and much of that is caught up in the poles, the glaciers and the ice-sheets in places such as Greenland.

Of all the worlds water, only 1% of it is fresh and available to human beings.

20% of people, or 1.1 billion human beings have no access to fresh water.

Because of related sanitary problems, this means that some five million people a year die directly from a lack of access to fresh water.

Countries like Britain have declared droughts even in winter because of the profilgate use of water; gardens, loo flushes, dish washing machines you name it, it isn't hard, we all waste water.

The US government is attempting to buy the content of Canadas Arctic rivers so that it can feed the insatiable thirst of Californias gas guzzling, water wasting millions.

What if Canada doesn't want to sell?

Or will only sell at a price that it wishes to do so at?

What would the US do if Canada decided to set an 'extortionate' price?

Would the US invade and seize the 'water fields'?

Okay, it's fanciful but not so far fetched stuff.

It has recently been revealed that the US considered invading the Middle East around 1974 when the price of a barrel of oil was jacked up whether Britain and other US allies liked it or not.

Why not Canada?

Elsewhere, growing populations in the Palestine have already seen skirmishes, for once not related to religeon per se, between the Lebanon and Israel, with Israel seeking to divert water away from some Lebanon villages to satiate its own necessities.

In Africa and China, mighty rivers are being damned and diverted to feed the need of each countries vested interests.

But the reason is clear. Billions of people each day have to travel six miles or more simply to fetch enough water, usually diseased, to survive.

There is a simple truth in all of this.

As resources run out, people will compete and ultimately fight over whatever dwindling resource is the issue of the day.

Oil, water, whatever it takes to keep themselves secure.

Apologists say that the Iraq war wasn't about oil, and I tend to agree.

But it's difficult to see the US and Britain getting quite so excited about a beaten tin-pot, brutal dictator without either an economic or a military interest.

Or both.

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