Explain, the water as a crucial resource in global politics.

Water has become another crucial resource in global politics due to the following reasons :

(i)Regional variations and increasing scarcity of freshwater in some parts of the world may lead to disagreements over shared water resources as a leading source of confliicts in 21st century.

(ii)It is feared that there might be “water wars” to describe the possibility of violent conflicts over this life-sustaining resource. States have used force to protect or seize freshwater resources.