Yes, we do tend to move water around a to more populated areas. However, the issue is more complicated, as some of the water we use is from aquifers that took hundreds of thousands of years to fill, but we are emptying them in less than 200 years and many aquifers are running dry. Add in chanign weather patterns, which are (mostly) due to rapid climate changes, and by rapid I mean within a few decade, when such changes usually take much longer, and our infrastructure which was built to move water from where rain and snow would fall under the older, no longer valid, weather patterns, and we are headint to an almost world wide water crises. We are not equipped to capture water from the new weather patterns and even if we were they are still rapidly changing.

I remember learning about 19th century water disputes which led to feuds and people being killed. A part of me is afraid of the possible coming all out wars over (clean) water.

Who needs bullet holes ? I leak quite naturally, through the short length of hose I have had since birth at least. Anybody who wants it ?

Very funny DP! But on a serious note: there are water shortages here and there, and they are caused by climate change. Take, for instance, the drying up of the great rivers of Europe and North America. The Danube, the Rhine, the Elbe, are all becoming un-navigable. The same thing is happening with the Mississippi. And South America's Amazon is also going through choking drought. Remember the song, Rainy Night in Georgia? Atlanta's reservoirs very nearly dried up completely recently. The amount of water that is bottled and sold by corporations represents only a small fraction of the water needed to maintain normal levels in our rivers.

The shit is really going to hit the fan when the Himalayan glaciers have all melted. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, all depend on a constant, predictable water supply that is already becoming unstable.

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