Right now the South Asian countries mentioned earlier are the most vulnerable since their population is growing faster than any place in the world stressing the water resources and the global warming will melt the snows in the Himalayas even faster and the summer season will be a bit longer, meaning the snows will be less and less. Less snow will mean less water and more tension between countries sharing that single biggest source of water during most of the off rainy season. Although water problem is being solved through talks, but is also true that there is lots of wastage of what little water they have. And then because of this the extremist elements especially in Pakistan are now trying to rally people to wage water war on India. Like we don’t have enough problems of being both of them nuclear that we want to see millions of people killed on a problem which is part man made and part nature.
The rainfall that comes down in that area is not enough to sustain the burgeoning population and over that, you have wastage of whatever water they receive through rainfall and snow melting. Also the underground water level is going down fast in those countries due to over drilling of wells (authorized and unauthorized). Furthermore the farmers are also hurting since they use the most water and hence rely heavily on monsoon rains and underground water.
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