Role of water resources in the modern world

The problems of water use and water availability have a long history. For thousands of years, the people had used water in agriculture and for satisfying their own needs, while in the recent centuries the water supply of industry has been added here. However, beginning from the mid-twentieth century, the use, distribution, and reproduction of water resources have acquired special relevance. The quickly growing world population, industry development, and expanding agricultural lands have led to the water deficit which is increasing with every passing year. The water demand runs ahead of the population growth rate. Many international organizations and individual states exerted enormous efforts to find the way to cope with this issue but so far without success. In the recent decades this has led to the growth of interstate contradictions of interests which gave rise to international instability and even to conflicts. This issue is so acute that the conflicting parties fail to find compromise. It means that in the nearest decades, we may witness the revival of “water wars” which will affect enormously the political map of the world. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.

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Collection of articles
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Language
English
Pages
13-29
Status
Published
Volume
105
Year
2020
Organizations
  • 1 The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 2 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 3 S.Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 4 Engineering Research Production Center for Water Management, Land Reclamation and Ecology “Soyuzvodproject”, Moscow, Russian Federation
Keywords
Conflicts; Ecology; Struggle for water; Water resources; World politics
Date of creation
02.11.2020
Date of change
02.11.2020
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/65452/
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