Attacks on water systems are attacks on health, say experts

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Experts warn that conflict damages water systems essential to public health and recovery, worsening fragility and violence. They say water scarcity rarely causes wars directly, but attacks on water infrastructure can reinforce cycles of conflict.

Water scarcity seldom starts wars, but wars increasingly degrade vital water systems on which health and recovery depend, creating a cycle that reinforces ongoing fragility and violence, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue.