Talking History: Water Wars with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell [Audio]
Publisher: KSMU Radio
Author(s): Djene Bajalan
Date: 2025
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Renewable Resources
From oil and gas to lithium and rare earth elements, the story of the modern world has often been shaped by competition over natural resources. But in many parts of the world today, it isn’t oil or gold that drives tension, it’s something far more basic: Water. From disputes along the Nile and the Tigris–Euphrates rivers to tensions over the Indus and the Mekong, access to water has become one of the defining geopolitical challenges of our time.