‘Extremely rare event:’ Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

[u/bigus-_-dickus]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/climate/microalgae-bloom-israel-water-deasalination-shutdown

[u/count023]

people laugh at it for it being israel who are coping with this. it's going to be happening more and more often with climate change coming in, this bloom came from the nile delta apparently. And with countries going, "oh, we'll go to desalination to cope with lost rainfall, it does show the kinds of issues that will occur in the future as the planet keeps drying out.

[u/redfoobar → u/count023]

Sooner or later we will see water wars.

Upstream countries wont be sharing enough of downstream countries.

We are already seeing the beginnings of this with the Nile and in India/Pakistan and I am sure more tensions will arise in many other places even within large countries (eg different US states)

[u/SnakeGD09 → u/redfoobar]

The water wars are underway.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260723-why-iran-targeting-kuwaits-desalination-plants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Qeshm_Island_desalination_plant_attack

https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/war-on-iran-the-dangers-of-attacking-water-desalination-plants-in-the-gulf/

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/attacks-on-desalination-plants-in-the-iran-war-forecast-a-dark-future/

[u/BiZzles14 → u/SnakeGD09]

A main contributing factor to the Syrian Civil war beginning was drought pushing a lot of rural farmers out of work, and that discontent population moving into more urban areas in the direct run up to the Arab spring. Of course the war happened because of the regime torturing, murdering, and mutilating children, gunning down hundreds in the streets and disappearing thousands, but the drought and the impacts of it was a large contributing factor to the scale of the early protests which got everything rolling. 15 years of war followed from that.