Water crisis

(noun)

There is not enough fresh, clean water to meet local demand. 

Related Terms

Examples of Water crisis in the following topics:

  • River Valley Civilizations

    • A hydraulic empire (also known as hydraulic despotism, or water monopoly empire) is a social or governmental structure which maintains power through exclusive control over water access.
    • Access to water is still crucial to modern civilizations; water scarcity affects more than 2.8 billion people globally.
    • Water stress is the term used to describe difficulty in finding fresh water or the depletion of available water sources.
    • Water shortage is the term used when water is less available due to climate change, pollution, or overuse.
    • Water crisis is the term used when there is not enough fresh, clean water to meet local demand.

  • The 1956 Suez Crisis

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The Refugee Crisis

  • The Financial Crisis of the 1930s

  • The Financial Crisis of 2008

  • Crises of the Roman Empire

    • The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, (CE 235–284) was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression.
    • Later, Aurelian (270–275) reunited the empire; the Crisis ended with the ascension and reforms of Diocletian in 284.
    • This victory was significant as the turning point of the crisis, when a series of tough, energetic soldier-emperors took power.
    • One of the most profound and lasting effects of the Crisis of the Third Century was the disruption of Rome's extensive internal trade network.
    • With the onset of the Crisis of the Third Century, however, this vast internal trade network broke down.

  • Military Achievements of the Flavians

    • In 82, Agricola crossed an unidentified body of water and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then.
    • An attack on Dacia's capital canceled however when a crisis arose on the German frontier, forcing Domitian to sign a peace treaty with Decebalus which was severely criticized by contemporary authors.

  • Louis XIV's Wars

    • It was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a theater in Ireland and in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of Britain and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indian allies (known as King William's War).
    • The fighting generally favored Louis XIV's armies, but by 1696 his country was in the grip of an economic crisis.

  • The Witch Trials

    • The sentence for an individual found guilty of witchcraft or sorcery during this time, and in previous centuries, typically included either burning at the stake or being tested with the "ordeal of cold water" or judicium aquae frigidae.
    • Professor Ruiz, UCLA department chair and Premio del Rey prize for best book in Spanish history before 1580 for his Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile, was speaker for the UCLA History Alumni Faculty Lecture, cohosted by the UCLA Alumni Association and UCLA Department of History.