Hydraulic development - Climate Adaptation-a security risk?

According to UN General Secretary Antonio Gutierres,

in the Sahel climate change is accelerating drought and thereby accelerating the competition between farmers and herders for scarce resources, facilitating the work of terrorists.

‘if we do nothing, we will face more drought…which will fuel conflict for decades'.

Hydraulic development

Let’s consider some examples that illustrate how such projects cause and contribute to conflict on different scales.

Drought is often portrayed as the surest route through which climate change will deepen and exacerbate conflict.

But hydraulic developments come with negative side-effects, which can generate conflict and insecurity. These are dislocation, destruction, discrimination, danger and dependency.

And these developments have become increasingly ambitious

But hydraulic developments have over the past century exploded in scale

Societies have always sought to secure water supply for individual use as well as for agriculture through infrastructural or technological developments, think for instance of the Iranian Qanats, underground aqueducts dating back to 3,000 years ago.

As Barack Obama put it,