Dr. Eduardo Faleiro in his scholarly and well researched posting, states that disharmony among religions will lead to conflicts in India. I do not dispute this premise. However, in India as well as many other countries on this earth, I am convinced that conflicts will begin earlier because of the scarcity of Water and Global warming. Global warming is already causing crop failures which is of course related to scarcity of water, and failure of the monsoons. In india, competition for scarce river water is alreadycausing problems between Goa and Maharashtra and Karnataka, between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and between Haryana and Punjab. Similar conficts are brewing between China and India with China damming the source of the mighty Brahamaputra,\ and we have heard rumbles about the sharing of river waters between Pakistan and India. .As draught and famine strike parts of India there will be mass migration between the famine stricken areas and areas perceived to have sufficient water.It is nearly 4 months before the monsoons arrive in Goa, and already several areas of the state are facing water scarcity.This may be partially due to in-adequate water distribution systems. However the rampant concretization of Goa with mega construction projects and housing coming up everywhere is putting a severe strain on water resources, and causing the diminishing of ground water aquifers.
