Water Conflicts: From Ancient to Modern Times and in the Future

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 13; no. 8; p. 4237
• Main Authors: Angelakis, Andreas N., Valipour, Mohammad, Ahmed, Abdelkader T., Tzanakakis, Vasileios, Paranychianakis, Nikolaos V., Krasilnikoff, Jens, Drusiani, Renato, Mays, Larry, El Gohary, Fatma, Koutsoyiannis, Demetris, Khan, Saifullah, Giacco, Luigi Joseph Del
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 11.04.2021
• Subjects: Aggression; Aquifers; Casualties; Cities; Deprivation; Groundwater; Hammurabi (1792?-1750 BC); History; Irrigation; Lakes; Medieval period; Natural disasters; Rivers; Sustainability; Warfare; Water governance; Water policy; Water resources; Water supply; Waterlogging; Assyria; Anatolia

Since prehistoric times, water conflicts have occurred as a result of a wide range of tensions and/or violence, which have rarely taken the form of traditional warfare waged over water resources alone. Instead, water has historically been a (re)source of tension and a factor in conflicts that start...