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 Water is no more a free commodity and situation in Libya is proof of this.... The Great Man Made Lake, Libya project went busted in 2011 A recent UN report has stated that the ongoing water conflict due to Libya is further putting pressure elsewhere. An ongoing infrastructural conflict that started with a careless act by NATO has snowballed into a massive water scarcity issue in Libya. The arid climatic conditions have always deprived the country of water sources though it does have underground water reservoirs. In 2011, the so called NATO Humanitarian act that bombed most of the water facilities created tirelessly under Gadaffi's leadership pushed Libya's water resourced to nill. NATO's justification was that pipe building plants were actually being used for military stockpiling. But today, the situation hasn't changed and the seemingly humanitarian act as led to an ongoing water war.  “ The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water ,” says Ismail Ser...

It is not oil anymore but water which is on sale now.  While the Nile Basin nations fight over water of the Blue and White Nile, Israel and Jordon are busy entering into a water sale deal. Under this deal, the Jewish state has agreed to sell an unprecedented amount of water to Jordon. Apparently, this will significantly boost Jordanian exports to Palestinians in West Bank. Most of Africa is under drought and looking at eager supplies of water and other means of livelihood. Ethiopia has been able to go against the tide and start irrigating its ambitious and promising Renaissance Dam project, much to the dismay of Egypt. After quite a cold war, Jordan and Egypt are coming close to each other and water is their reason for it. The meeting between the two countries was held just inside the Jordanian border. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his Jordanian counterpart approved Israel's sale of 50 million cubic metres of water to its neighbour.  This is being called a tr...