Never thought about this before.

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https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603044239

This type of thing is on the National Risk Register and is something that is very much considered by a lot of "higher ups". As are a great deal of other things.

That would be the main reason I would be planning to leave the area if I could. (It's also part of the reason I would never move there though!)

It's an obvious risk.

We have long been entering a world of water wars. The next few decades are not going to be pretty for the world as a whole.

War over water shortages is something that has been discussed for years. I first became aware of it about 20 years ago but when I’ve tried to raise it in conversation people looked at me as if I had two heads so I gave up trying.

Yep, people look at you with scorn. It’s an inconvenient truth for sure.

I read The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells about 7 years ago and he talks about the world’s water supply. Yemen in particular is already badly affected and from memory was expected to run out completely by 2030 (vs 2040 when global supply is set to outstrip demand). It’s just one of the interlocking crises we face in the current climate. Scrambling to take control of resources is apparently the path the global powers are going with, as discussed in the book.