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Oh...and India is running of water. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-wate

Oh...and India is running of water. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl... You don't know scary until 1.3 billion people all decide they have to leave India at once or they'll die of thirst. And India has nuclear weapons.

modi15 7y ago
No its not. India has a ridiculous number of rivers and surrounded by ocean on all sides. What India is facing is distribution issues and there are already broadly understood solutions to the problem.
- aitchnyu 7y ago
  Many of the ridiculous number of rivers depend on disappearing glaciers and worsening erratic rainfall patterns though.
familysized 7y ago
How is having water problems related to having nuclear weapons? Please explain.
- devdas 7y ago
  Lack of water leads to breakdown in civil society, which can end up in civil war. Also, India, Pakistan and China all depend on the Himalayan glaciers for water. With global warming, those glaciers are melting down, and there is likely to be a demand to secure water sources. Three nuclear powers fighting over a scarce, essential resource is not going to be fun.
rohit2412 7y ago
While I agree that water is an increasingly scarce resource, I find the argument that "people will die of thirst" very misinforming of the situation. The thing is that we may call it drinking water, but it's used for all purposes like washing, sanitation etc. An average person's daily water consumption is 150-300 litre in various countries, but she uses probably only 3-4 litre for drinking. The problem is scarcity of water to fulfill our wasteful living standard, where we flush drinking water by the liters everyone we go to the toilet. A different problem is the distribution of water, where the poor haven't been able to get reliable access to this water. This is why people die of thirst.

modi15 7y ago

No its not. India has a ridiculous number of rivers and surrounded by ocean on all sides. What India is facing is distribution issues and there are already broadly understood solutions to the problem.

aitchnyu 7y ago
Many of the ridiculous number of rivers depend on disappearing glaciers and worsening erratic rainfall patterns though.

familysized 7y ago

How is having water problems related to having nuclear weapons? Please explain.

devdas 7y ago
Lack of water leads to breakdown in civil society, which can end up in civil war. Also, India, Pakistan and China all depend on the Himalayan glaciers for water. With global warming, those glaciers are melting down, and there is likely to be a demand to secure water sources. Three nuclear powers fighting over a scarce, essential resource is not going to be fun.

rohit2412 7y ago

While I agree that water is an increasingly scarce resource, I find the argument that "people will die of thirst" very misinforming of the situation. The thing is that we may call it drinking water, but it's used for all purposes like washing, sanitation etc. An average person's daily water consumption is 150-300 litre in various countries, but she uses probably only 3-4 litre for drinking. The problem is scarcity of water to fulfill our wasteful living standard, where we flush drinking water by the liters everyone we go to the toilet. A different problem is the distribution of water, where the poor haven't been able to get reliable access to this water. This is why people die of thirst.