Water - the next reason for conflict?

[Tarrel]

Someone on the news yesterday expressed the view that the Syria conflict is already partly about water, for the reasons NR cited above. It's certainly not about oil.

There is already a global trade in water. When China buys US or Russian grain, it is, in effect, buying their water. Water, and vast quantities of it, is essential to the running of our high input, high-yield agricultural system. You can't get something for nothing. The "miracle" of the green revolution was really just us figuring out how to turn oil and water into food.