In the Middle East, Water Will Increasingly Become a Weapon and Driver of Conflict

This article is part of an ongoing RANE series on the geopolitical impacts of water stress. The first installment of this series provided a broad overview of how the unequal distribution of freshwater shapes geopolitical patterns. Other installments have examined the impacts of water stress on the global economy, Europe, China, the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, Israel, Central Asia and Chile.