Conflicts over water

As conflicts over water legal or armed conflict apply to the water supply . The potential for conflict is the distribution, use, availability and pollution of potable fresh water.

While sufficient access to clean water is unevenly distributed around the world and many people therefore have to “fight” for it, there is hardly any “fights” in the sense of acts of war over water. Most of the time, the disputes were resolved through negotiations and legal channels.

Historical and current examples of conflicts over water are:

approx. 2,400 BC BC: Fighting for the border region Gu'edena between the Mesopotamian city-states Lagaš and Umma
the California Water Wars in Owens Valley (see also History of California # Technical achievements and their collateral damage and St. Francis Dam # The Water War )
the Jordan water issue
the Operation Chastise - 1943 blew up the Royal Air Force with special bouncing bomb the Eder and the Möhnetalsperre
various conflicts in Florida (transfer from north to south Florida; Tampa Bay ; the catchment area of the "ACF" rivers)
the dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia over the lake named after Sidney Lanier
2000 the water war of Cochabamba , dispute about the privatization or remunicipalisation of a water supply in Bolivia
Southeast Anatolia Project (whereby the water discharge is regulated by the Turkish-Syrian Protocol of 1987; this strategic aspect must be differentiated from the tactical military importance of dams, as is currently the case in the civil war in Syria .)
2015: Dhi Qar (Governorate) , South Iraq

Individual evidence

↑ z. B. https://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/hunger/inhalt/sendung/kenia-kampf-ums-wasser.html
↑ Reason for war water? In: sueddeutsche.de. March 21, 2007, accessed September 7, 2018 .
↑ Water Wars ? Reality or Science Fiction ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
^ Water and Electricity - Weapons in the Syria Conflict
↑ http://www.rferl.org/content/is-water-war-dries-marshes-in-southern-iraq/27098762.html

[1] z. B. https://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/hunger/inhalt/sendung/kenia-kampf-ums-wasser.html

[2] Reason for war water? In: sueddeutsche.de. March 21, 2007, accessed September 7, 2018 .

[3] Water Wars ? Reality or Science Fiction ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Water and Electricity - Weapons in the Syria Conflict

[5] ttp://www.rferl.org/content/is-water-war-dries-marshes-in-southern-iraq/27098762.html