Comments on: Water wars are considered to be among the imminent conflicts this century https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/water-wars-are-considered-to-be-among-the-imminent-conflicts-this-century/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/water-wars-are-considered-to-be-among-the-imminent-conflicts-this-century/comment-page-1/#comment-3758110 Michael van der Riet Thu, 15 May 2025 07:01:08 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52893#comment-3758110 Handle, you sound like the guy who wiped me out so badly at chess dot com recently.

]]> By: Handle https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/water-wars-are-considered-to-be-among-the-imminent-conflicts-this-century/comment-page-1/#comment-3758109 Handle Wed, 14 May 2025 23:04:05 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52893#comment-3758109 As their country could get half-annihilated in mere hours were Aswan to suddenly crumble, any Egyptian official should be very hesitant to say or do anything that tends to nudge attitudes about “blowing up dams” from “off limits” to “fair game according to your own espoused principles”.

For years I’ve been reading that the next big water crisis will happen in Yemen, and it must be awfully hard these days for the Israelis to resist knocking out the infrastructure currently pumping those aquifers dry.

Actually, wait, no, I’m wrong, it’s more strategic in the long run to just let the Yemenis keep rapidly exhausting those reserves. In fact, Israel would be smart to help them do it even faster, send them lots of free drilling rigs and electrical pumps and solar panels (less diversion potential for militants than motor fuel) and even have the chutzpah to call it humanitarian assistance. Heck, don’t stop there, subsidize the export of Yemeni khat so that the Yemenis focus on their most water-intensive product and use their supplies up even faster. Devious.

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