TOO MANY PEOPLE. TOO FEW RESOURCES. Why do otherwise intelligent people avoid the most obvious way to ease the strain on Planet Earth? Yemeni newspaper Al Thawra, has reported that up to 80 percent of conflicts in rural areas of the country can be blamed on fights over water. And according to Foreign Affairs magazine, “Yemen’s Interior Ministry estimates water- and land-related disputes result in about 4,000 deaths each year; 35 times the number of casualties in the deadliest Al Qaeda attack in the county’s history.”
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:44:45 +0000
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