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In 1995, Vice President World Bank has made a prediction about the wars of the future:
"If the wars of the twentieth century were fought over oil, those of the XXI century will be the subject of contention as the water."

In the Middle East, along the Nile, across Africa, Asia, India, Latin America and even in the U.S. are currently over 50 ongoing conflicts between states because of water-related causes.
The Indian scientist Vandana Shiva spoke about in his book: "The water wars."



Many of the conflicts focused on resources, such as water, are hidden, disguised are: who controls the power to prefer pass the water wars or hoarding of raw materials like oil, gold, diamonds ... as if they were ethnic, tribal, religious conflicts for security against terrorism ...!

The most "emblematic" of these conflicts is that between Israelis and Palestinians, a conflict based on their possession of natural resources: the land and water.
Certainly the "water war" in this case is the consequence and not the cause of contention between Israel and Palestine. Israel receives two-thirds of the fact its water from territories conquered by the "Six Day War in 1967. established Israeli settlements in these occupied territories have been located so as to control the sources of water: the result is that there is Palestinian, the average consumption of 150 cubic meters per capita per year, while the Israeli settlers up to 800 mc.





It is no coincidence that Israel's water under the Ministry of Agriculture in Palestine by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
In May 2005 in Ramallah, Palestine, was held an international conference on the issue of water rights. The legal philosopher Danilo Zolo, at the conference, thus explained the water problem: "The Israeli aggression on Palestinian people's right to use their water resources is one of the most effective tools of political oppression and social discrimination.
values \u200b\u200bsuch as life, social security, health is seriously threatened by Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian water resources and the heavy restrictions imposed on the Palestinian population.

The restrictions were adopted by military orders that have banned Palestinians from building or owning a water system without a permit Israeli military authorities.








am have also been set a levy, wells and springs have been dispossessed Palestinians absent., while the water bill penalizing the Palestinian people, whose living standard is far below that of Israeli citizens. Overall 85% of Palestinian water is used today by the Israelis. The conflict over water is only one aspect, though the most important, the war for the liberation of Palestine.
not solve the water problem if not solved, together, that the establishment of a Palestinian state, its full independence. "

less intricate disputes have also affected other regions of the planet.



For many years there is still a lot of tension between Turkey - on the one hand - and Iran, Iraq and Syria - on the other - with regard to the basins of the Tigris and Euphrates in the land we know as the "Mesopotamia" the cradle of civilization ...
A trigger was Turkey's decision to promote "the Great Anatolian Project", by building a levee system to increase irrigation and produce electricity.

This project puts into the hands of Turkey's great power: to "turn off the taps" while in fact hostage to Iraq and Syria not to intervene on the Kurdish question.

also sending the army in those areas, with the excuse of protecting yards, used to control its military lands inhabited by the Kurds.


dams, have always been one of the more symbolic forms of technological domination of man over nature.

Not only are a source of conflict between states, but even within the same state.
Worldwide, there are now 19,000 dams over 30 meters high, 45,000 if you consider a height up to 15 meters.

But the nature and history have also demonstrated, sometimes dramatically, the fragility and limitations of these great works, so that the dams are now classified as "major technological risks," like a nuclear power plant or a 'hazardous chemical. While
exalted aspects of "grandeur" of such works, are usually silent about the financial costs, social and ecological.
why they were born in these years the movement of opposition to the construction of major projects:

in India managed to stop the project of the Narmada Valley, funded by the World Bank, which includes 30 major dams, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams along the Narmada River and its tributaries.
In India, the construction of large dams has led to the transfer of about 50 million people.

(The movements of opposition to the construction of "large dams" have managed to stop the construction of the dam)

In China, even 10 million residents were forced to evacuate for a single dam in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze valley. According to the Italian geographer

Teresa Isenburg the Three Gorges Project is a giant of unparalleled: the dam will have a height of 185 meters, the length of two kilometers and will create a pool of water of 64,000 sq km, almost three times the Piemonte. A work

Pharaoh! (E 'was inaugurated May 20, 2006)


The World Commission on Dams has acknowledged that too often "paid a price was not acceptable by the people evacuated from communities living in the valley in the shadow of dams, by taxpayers and from the wild. Arundhati Roy, Indian writer of international renown, has denounced this situation as well:
"Large dams are for the development of a nation that nuclear bombs are to its military arsenal.

Both are weapons of mass destruction.

Both are tools that governments use to control their people.

Both are emblems of human intelligence that has overtaken his instinct for survival.

malignant Both are indications of a civilization that turns against itself.

represent breaking the bond between humans and the planet in which they live.

upset the logic that connects the eggs the hens, milk to cows, water to rivers, air to life and earth into existence "
In fact, large dams and encourage multinational corporations in the construction phase during both the management and finally in the enjoyment of the benefits, because the drastic modernization local agriculture to the dogs sent millions of small farmers who still work with traditional methods, making them desperate to flow in the suburbs where they live in misery.

agricultural products thus obtained is exported, while subsistence farming is wiped out, and the lives of millions of people in a short time become the "screw up".

Vandana Shiva in the introduction to his book The water wars, has stigmatized with words of fire, this global system of exploitation:
"The forced removal of resources to the people is a form of terrorism - terrorism business.

The 50 million Indians displaced from their homes flooded by the dams over the past forty 'years are also victims of terrorism - have suffered the terror of technology development and destructive.
destroy the resource and forest reservoirs and aquifers is a form of terrorism. To deny the poor access to water distribution or privatization polluting wells and rivers, this is also terrorism.

The terrorists are not only those who take refuge in the caves of Afghanistan, and some are hiding in the halls of the boards of multinational companies, behind the rules on the free market imposed by the World Trade Organisation, which deny millions of people the right to a sustainable livelihood.

Greed and appropriation of the planet's precious resources that belong to others are at the root of conflicts and the root of terrorism.

Lifestyle 20% of the world's population uses 80% of the planet's resources effectively expropriate the remaining 80% of its fair share of resources and will eventually destroy the planet.

We can not survive as a species if greed is privileged and if the economy of the greedy down the rules on how to live and die "





Source: staged reading of Hercules and Fabrizio De Giovanni Ongaro "H2ORO" 2007