At the beginning of the invasions, Russia forces destroyed a concrete dam in southern Ukraine. It's highlighted how disrupting an enemy's access to water can be an especially vicious tactic of war.
COLLART Hervé/Sygma via Getty Imagest the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian forces destroyed a concrete dam in southern Ukraine. Ukrainians had built the structure in 2014, after Russia illegally annexed Crimea, with the aim of blocking Dnieper River water that had flowed to Crimea since the Soviet era and diverting it to the Ukrainian city of Kherson.
“The basic idea of war is that it’s organized violence and to use the threat of force to compel people,” said Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor of national security and political science at the University of New Haven. “Because we have to drink water to survive, it’s always been a weapon of war.” After post-World War II human-rights accords, the instances where water was used as a weapon subsided.
A Yemeni child carries empty jerricans amid continuing widespread disruption of water supply in an impoverished coastal village on the outskirts of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.Human life is unimaginable without water. Worldwide, 2.2 billion people don’t have access to safe water, which makes them more vulnerable to malnutrition and death.
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