> Population is growing. There are limited resources. One day someone's going to dam up someone else's water and wars will be fought. I remember taking a unive

> Population is growing. There are limited resources. One day someone's going to dam up someone else's water and wars will be fought. I remember taking a university lecture on "water history" and it was... surprisingly fascinating and enlightening. Some of the earliest conflicts have been over water for farming. The concept of hydraulic despotism describes how the need to control and coordinate water resources across large populations and lands gave impetus for the first civilisations and complex governments, like ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, Peru, and others. They developed all kinds of technologies, measurement systems, and bureaucracies to deal with water. They say that history doesn't repeat but it rhymes. There will certainly be more conflicts over water in the future. We have the civilisational 'technology' of national governments to manage intra-national resources, and we're seeing the active invention of new civilisational 'technologies' of international blocs and more to manage global resources.