○ Geopolitics: Bodies of Water

A body of water, waterbody, or water body is any significant accumulation of water, generally on a planet's surface. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as ponds, wetlands, reservoirs, harbors, rivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are also considered bodies of water. Navigable bodies of water are known as waterways. Tidal effects occur in bodies of water affected by gravity.

Water politics, sometimes called hydropolitics, is politics affected by the availability of water and water resources, a necessity for all life forms and human development. Why ‘hydro-politics’ will shape the 21st Century. The availability of drinking water per capita is inadequate and shrinking worldwide. The causes, related to both quantity and quality, are many and varied; they include local scarcity, limited availability and population pressures, but also human activities of mass consumption, misuse, environmental degradation and water pollution, as well as climate change.

Geopolitical Imperatives, Water .
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List: links to bodies of water, atlas .

The Geopolitics of Water in theMiddle East: fantasies and realities (pdf)

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AGW Threat to Oceans ..

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