The situation is serious according to the UN: “vampiric” humanity is depleting “drop after drop” the planet’s water resources. Over the past 40 years, our use of fresh water has increased by almost 1% per year. In fact, water shortages “tend to become widespread” and will worsen with the impact of global warming, says the UN. The latest IPCC report published on Monday confirms this trend: “about half of the world’s population” suffers from “serious” water shortages.
Faced with such water stress, conflicts over water are increasingly numerous. The American scientist Peter Gleick, founder of the Pacific Institute, has identified more than 200 since 2020. Among them, the Sahel dam between Senegal and Mauritania or the Nile dam in Ethiopia. And the situation is not about to improve. With increasing population growth, industrialization and urbanization, water demand is expected to increase by 30% by 2050.
Will the water war take place? With us to talk about it, Lena Salamelawyer and specialist in conflict management and mediation within a joint program of the universities of Harvard, MIT and Tufts.
Le Bruit du monde is tonight in Sweden
Sweden is at the forefront of electric mobility. Mobility which involves batteries requiring a large quantity of rare metals, the extraction of which is very polluting. It is done mainly in China or even by China in appalling social conditions. A Swedish company has therefore found a way to recycle 95% of the materials from used batteries to make new ones. It bears the name of Northvolt and last year opened the largest battery production site in Europe. It is building the largest battery recycling plant on the continent. The rest is Charlotte Morteo who tells.
Also on this show
- Under the radar, for Sebastien Laugenie
- Cinema chronicle in original version, by Alexis Demeyer on the film “CHILE 1976” by Manuella Martelli
- The world after, by Jean-Marc Four
