Published on, Aug. 17 -- August 17, 2025 2:07 AM

Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist from India, in her book "Water Wars", warns against commoditization and the use of water as a weapon of war. Through her book, she issues a wakeup call to initiate a global dialogue on water security, accepting it as neither a commodity nor a weapon of war, but as a basic human right and provides context for this article. Conflicts triggered on the basis of water exploitation have a canny knack of turning extremely violent. The ultimate sufferer of such conflicts is the marginalised humanity on both or multiple sides of these.

Water wars, interstate or intrastate, can cause high-intensity or low-intensity conflicts between states and state versus n...