Sunday, September 17, 2006
Sumeria Rearing Its Ugly Little Head Again
Alister Doyle, an Environment Correspondent at Reuters looks at war. . . over water?
With a steady stream of bleak predictions that "water wars" will be fought over dwindling supplies in the 21st century, battles between two Sumerian city-states 4,500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent.And whether we could be facing such a conflict as we grope our way into the new millenium.
