The Sudans and their struggle for water by Eric Reeves Water, not oil, will determine the economic fate and well-being of Sudan and South Sudan. In many African countries, sewage, mud and other contaminants compromise water, health and food security. But desertification, drought and violence are crippling these two recently divorced nations. In the Darfur region of western Sudan, government-backed militias have militarised water — seizing wells or destroying them — making this resource useless to those whose lives depend on it. Earlier in the conflict, these forces respected the neutrality of water sites, but as the war enters its…
