As Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, begins to question in her book Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, is water a human right, is it something that all humans should have access to without anyone telling them otherwise, or is it nothing more than a commodity, a natural resource that can be distributed to others with a price? She also raises the question of who has the rights to areas of water. Do the politicians or the citizens or can even corporations have control over the water? As Shiva later goes on to state, sometimes wars between two nations or two different groups can be about something as simple as water. Many wars that have been going on are somewhat about water control, a natural resource that has
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