Global climate change impacts in the United States

Water: A Major Stake of Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

“…Basically, the cooperation between the two countries regarding the sharing of these two rivers is old-with treaties dating back to 1906 and 1944 (Mumme, 2020). For several decades, all was well until drought due to climate change (Anon, 2010;Warren, n.d.;Woodhouse & Pederson, 2018) and the overexploitation of said rivers [man-made lakes, gigantic dams, and diversion canals] (Anon, 2020;Bohn et al, 2018) fueled tensions between riparians. Recall that Colorado has been plagued by drought for nearly 20 years (Mokry, 2021).…”