Wangari Maathai warns about resource conflicts: "If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight"

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Fighting for water between farmers and downstream herdsmen recurs almost every year at our home area, compounding a very sensitive political problem. With the near total drying up of the rivers this year, we fear a bloodbath around election time. But youth from the villages are determined to do their best to prevent this. See their blog at http://kijabeyouth.wordpress.com.

Humanity has enormous non-human competition for water resources.   Aquatic weeds clog the waterways, sucking off the water and depositing silt that raises lake and stream beds.  The process is called hydrosere, and turns wetlands to grasslands and then to desert.  Depending on where you are, the main problem may be Typha, Phragmites, Papyrus or water hyacinth lettuce or spinach.  This is all biomass, suitable for biofuel production, or composting.  New uses for water hyacinth fiber are announced daily.  If we weed and dredge the lakes and rivers we can reestablish the "lake effect" rains that once made Africa a wet continent.  We CAN drive back the desert.  We must defeat it first in the wetlands.

Now, these are phrases, but when you change them into practicalities on the earth it is actually [?] possible to quit individuals dealing with. If there is no water and there is only one water place individuals will combat over that water place.  http://www.zyy.com/