H/t reader Squodgy:
“Mesopotamia. Between the two rivers at the birthplace of civilisation, so we’re told.
He’s been dead a while but I recall Saddam complaining that Turkey had dammed the Tigris and diverted much of its water illegally for Turkey’s use. The clear extension of this issue is the coming desertification of all regions located there.
This wil, together with Ethiopia’s damming of the White Nile, causing major issues downstream with Egypt will most certainly be the first of many WATER WARS to turn bad.”
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– The Demise of Mesopotamia: The Geopolitics of Water. The Desertification of Iraq
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