Violence over water is on the rise globally. A record number of conflicts erupted in 2023

In Pakistan, two groups of farmers started arguing in the fields and attacked each other with axes, clubs and bricks in a bloody fight over water.

In South Africa, hundreds of people protesting a water shortage blocked roads with burning tires and hurled rocks at police.

In Ukraine, Russian attacks on infrastructure left a city of nearly 1 million people without water.

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