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The battle for water / Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, Project Syndicate, 7/08/2013http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-water-is-becoming-the-new-oil-by-brahma-chellaneyThe sharpening international geopolitical competition over natural resources has turned some strategic resources into engines of power struggle. Transnational water resources have become an especially active source of competition and conflict, triggering a dam-building race and prompting growing calls for the United Nations to recognize water as a key security concern...