The relationship between water and conflict has a long history. Sometimes a fight arises over water resources. Other times water is used as a we...

Published on March 29, 2022 14:30 by Travis Loop, Founder of waterloop, a nonprofit news outlet exploring solutions for sustainability in water.

The relationship between water and conflict has a long history. Sometimes a fight arises over water resources. Other times water is used as a weapon during war. In other cases water is collateral damage. The history is detailed in the Water and Conflict Chronology and discussed in this episode with Peter Gleick, President Emeritus and a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Institute.

Peter also talks about examples from the chronology such as the first entry from 2400 B.C. in Mesopotamia, the destruction of a water system in New York City during the Revolutionary War, and the involvement of water in the current invasion of Ukraine.