What year do you predict the earth will have used up its natural potable water supply?”
The year that it will all run out is not nearly important as what year we will all start fighting over water. Here in Georgia we are already fighting with our neighbor states over water. The scary thing to me will be when countires in the Middle East start having water wars. I see this happening as soon as the next twenty to thirty years. Some would say that this has already started to happen. 🙁 Oil has always been thought of as the traditional cause of conflict in the Middle East past and present. Since the first Gulf oil well gushed in Bahrain in 1932, countries have squabbled over borders in the hope that ownership of a patch of desert or a sand bank might give them access to new riches. No longer. Now, most borders have been set, oil fields mapped and reserves accurately estimated – unlike the water resources, which are still often unknown. WATER is taking over from oil as the likeliest cause of conflict in the Middle East. The following From
