Water Rights and Water Fights: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts before They Boil Over
Publisher: Americal Journal of Public Health
Author(s): Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
Date: 2011
Topics: Basic Services, Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Governance, Public Health, Renewable Resources
Scarcity of freshwater is an increasingly critical public health problem in many parts of the world. World leaders, including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, have urged that this issue be given high priority. Inadequate access to safe freshwater contributes to waterborne disease, malnutrition, poverty, economic and political instability, and conflict—potentially violent conflict—between countries or groups within countries.