I was reading Thomas Friedman’s book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” for another class when I came across something that reminded me of my blog project. In one section of the book, Friedman discusses how global warming is making less water available becasue it affects the amount of water released when glaciers go through an annual melting period. Friedman notes that this creates rivals becasue people have to figure out how to share a decreasing amount of water. He talks to a climate expert Joseph Romm who says that “the word ‘rival’ actually comes from people who share the same river.” This shows that water is a very valuable resource and conflict can arise in how it is shared. The news article about water in Lesotho showed that water is such a valuable commodity in Southern Africa that revenue from selling water makes up 75% of Lesotho’s budget. What I’ve seen from this example is that when it comes to “sharing” water, it is often the people that can pay the most that are able to have their water needs met.