Water wars: "The injunction to share"

Since the dawn of time, man has fought for water as much as for land, aware that one without the other is not worth much.

The domination of the Roman Empire was reinforced by its science of aqueducts;

in the 15th century, the peasants of the Swiss Valais killed each other for the control of the mountain torrents;

in 1503, Leonardo da Vinci conspired with Machiavelli to divert the Arno from Pisa to the benefit of Florence;

and water was not the least issue in the Six-Day War in 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

For several decades now, experts and UN reports have announced the

This vital resource, a natural benefit par excellence, can become a weapon, even a strategic objective when it runs out.

But the shortage is there, accelerated by drought and climate change: nearly half of humanity lives in regions facing chronic or occasional water shortages.

In Africa, the Middle East, Asia…

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