in washington we cross to michael cohen he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london if you like to term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's literally served want to wars but in fact it misleads people into thinking that most you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people run out of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on imported food which has huge volumes of it bedded water it without any politics or any anxiety so provided there

in washington we cross to michael cohen he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london if you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media you know it's sounds good because it's a literature of water wars whereas in fact that before thinking that it was to run out of water whatever that means you then automatically return.