World power Water: Part 1: Overview and review 2026

Water is such a matter of course that people, especially in the rich countries of the North, do not give any thought to the fact that water is the most valuable commodity on earth. Water itself is abundant on earth thanks to the oceans, but drinking water is a scarce commodity - even in the so-called rich countries. Developments over the last 200 years, particularly in Europe, America and Asia, show that as prosperity increases, humans not only consume more and more drinking water, but also waste and pollute it. Humans have still not learned to make do with this scarce resource. Climate change, the fact that approximately 3.5 billion people have no direct access to drinking water, and the fact that the quality of drinking water is significantly inadequate in most developing countries and emerging powers have still not changed behaviour. The fact that migration caused by climate change, the increase in deserts and uninhabitable areas of the earth solely due to the lack of drinking water highlights the scale of the current problem and the future challenges facing humanity. Since white people, and Europeans and Americans in particular, still show no consideration for the world's drinking water, they should not be surprised if, in the face of massive refugee movements, Western populations no longer feel safe in their oases of prosperity. This also applies to Germany, and above all to Germany. Water is a human right. There is no life on earth without water. Nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed in this principle since time immemorial. And more than that: water is a global power that influences everything that happens in the world and determines the survival of humanity.