Rivers will run red with blood if water crisis is not solvedJonathan GornallThe Greek historian Herodotus recognized that Egypt, “the gift of the Nile,” was wholly a product of the river’s life-giving waters and the rich silt deposited by its annual flooding. According to the World Resources Institute, more than a billion people already suffer from scarcity of water. Two-thirds of the world’s disputed transboundary rivers, including the Nile, Euphrates-Tigris, Indus, Ganges and Mekong, lack any kind of cooperative management agreements. Here, in the absence of rivers and groundwater, the “answer” — vast desalination plants supply all the drinkable water in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar — is no answer at all. But a solution to the most fundamental threat to our existence must be found, and urgently, before the rivers of Earth run red with blood.

Source: Ethiopian News January 23, 2019 18:00 UTC