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The Role of Water in the Contemporary World Politics

By: Nika Chitadze Director of the Center for International Studies Professor of the International Black Sea University Introduction At the end of XX and beginning of the XXI century more and more attention is paid to the global problems of the water resources. This global problem is interrelated with the other global problems – political, ecologic and demographic. From one side, pollution of the environment causes the fact, that the sources of the drinking water are becoming useless for the consumption. From the other side, population growth in our planet is the reason of the emerging and strengthening its deficit. The whole stock of the water of our planet is about 1,4 Billion km 3 . (Neidze, 2004) But, its biggest part is salted. Particularly, water occupies 70% of the surface of our planet, but almost entire part is coming to the salt – water -  97.5%.  In this case, the share of the fresh water among of the all available water resources