International Report: Water in Yemen in 2030 Major Issue

The report issued by the Civilians in Conflict Center warned that, in addition to the threat posed by climate change to Yemenis’ ability to access water and food, it also threatens to exacerbate conflict and provoke future conflicts due to competition for resources and migration.

According to the center, scientists have been discussing the threat posed by climate change in Yemen for decades. As one of the most water-poor countries in the world, and because this country is at risk of total drought, which will leave its 30 million people without water, the World Bank published in 2020 a paper in which it predicted the depletion of groundwater reserves in Yemen between 2030 and 2040. In the same year, the Century Foundation published a report that stated that even as the war raged, “the environmental crisis in Yemen is the greatest danger to its future.”

According to the report, climate change, in addition to the damage caused by the current aggression against Yemen, has affected the environment and vital resources and contributed to resource scarcity and forced migration across the country.

These effects, in turn, have led to increased protection threats, tensions between different communities over resources, and outbreaks of violence and local conflict.

He said that in the absence of sustainable and long-term solutions to mitigate the effects of both climate change and environmental destruction, the people of Yemen face significant risks moving forward, both in their ability to obtain the resources needed to survive, and in the possibility of the conflict continuing in the future. Increasing resource scarcity.

The report stated that the past eight years of conflict have compounded the effects of climate change on land, water and food through the deterioration of basic government services, direct attacks on agricultural land and water sources.

The report warns that mismanagement of resources has been a problem for many decades in Yemen, where it began long before the outbreak of the conflict, but was exacerbated by the war.