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BBC: The war I'm interested in is the water war - not an armed conflict, but a struggle nonetheless, between people and a rapidly disappearing resource. The alarming thing, for those working to ease this new conflict, is that Cypriots don't even seem to realise that hostilities between them and nature have begun. Charalampos Theopemptou is the Greek Cypriot side's Environment Commissioner, and it was he who told me the story about the old man in the classroom. He explains its ......
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Cyprus conflict closes leaders’ eyes to water shortage
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 11th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation