Global water security
Subtitle: intelligence community assessment
Publisher: Defense Intelligence Agency?]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Water rights; Water resources development; Water-supply; Economic aspects; Social aspects; International Security; National security; Strategic aspects
Description: This report is designed to answer the question: How will water problems (shortages, poor water quality, or floods) impact US national security interests over the next 30  years? We selected 2040 as the endpoint of our research to consider longer-term impacts from growing  populations, climate change, and continued economic development. However, we sometimes cite specific time frames (e.g., 2030, 2025) when reporting is based on these dates. For the Key Judgments, we emphasize impacts that will occur within the next 10 years.  We provide an introductory discussion of the global water picture, but we do not do a comprehensive  analysis of the entire global water landscape. We focused on a finite number of states that are strategically important to the United States  and transboundary issues from a selected set of water basins (Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Mekong, Jordan, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Amu Darya). We judge that these examples are sufficient to illustrate the  intersections between water challenges and US national security.

"This report--requested by the Department of State--is designed to answer the question: How will water problems (shortages, poor water quality, or floods) impact US national security interests over the next 30 years? We selected 2040 as the endpoint of our research to consider longer-term impacts from growing populations, climate change, and continued economic development. However, we sometimes cite specific time frames (e.g., 2030, 2025) when reporting is based on these dates. For the Key Judgments, we emphasize impacts that will occur within the next 10 years. We provide an introductory discussion of the global water picture, but we do not do a comprehensive analysis of the entire global water landscape. For the core classified analysis--a National Intelligence Estimate--we focused on a finite number of states that are strategically important to the United States and transboundary issues from a selected set of water basins (Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Mekong, Jordan, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Amu Darya). We judge that these examples are sufficient to illustrate the intersections between water challenges and US national security.".
Notes: 2 February 2012.

"This is an IC-coordinated paper"--Cover.

"This Assessment was prepared under the auspices of the Director of the Strategic Futures Group and  drafted by the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was coordinated with the Intelligence Community"--P. vii.

Title from PDF cover screen (viewed on Apr. 1, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access:  World Wide Web.

System requirements:  Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Table of contents: title: Scope note.; title: Key judgments.; title: Risks and opportunities.; title: Introduction: the global water picture.; title: Impacts of water problems.; title: Water pressures.; title: Improving water management and investments.; title: Annex.