World water wars warning sounded at forum
The world must act now to head off water wars in developing nations, where the resource has become so scarce, polluted or threatened that people are willing to fight over it, activists at a protest forum outside the 4th World Water Forum said yesterday.
Water wars aren’t merely an apocalyptic vision of the future; conflicts here are coming close to that stage, said Maria Cruz de Paz, a Mazahua Indian who has carried a rifle – albeit a mock wooden one – in angry 2004 protests that temporarily shut off part of Mexico City’s water supply.
