Combined with the amount of water that
India at top of climate violence
seeps out the bottom of the lake, is quite
enough to supply about nine million people
A map of global ecological conflict in
with water each year — roughly the
the Environmental Justice Atlas, released
population of the city of Los Angeles. Lake
in Dec. 2015 shows most of the climate related
Mead loses a similar amount and so do each
conflict is taking place in India, Colombia and
of the reservoirs up and down the Colorado
Nigeria. These cases of conflict caused
River system. All that up in a system, one
by climate change and environmental disputes.
can see an inefficiency that could add
It shows that more than 200 conflicts in India,
roughly 30 percent more to the river's flow.
101 in Colombia and 71 in Nigeria, caused
There are no easy ways to address this
due to
inefficiency,
but
what’s
changing
the
discussion is the fact that both Lake Powell
ecological disputes and scarcities of
basic resources such as water and forests.
environmental conflicts..
and Lake Mead are essentially drying up.
The atlas is a work in progress and aims to
Both reservoirs still lose an enormous
map 2,500 environmental conflicts and
amount through evaporation and they're not
injustices, by the end of 2017.
functioning at their full capacity. The idea of
a dam not suiting its original purpose.
The experts believed that one reason for India
recording the maximum number of conflicts is
the thrust on industrialisation, mining for
Whatever h