At heart of Yemen's conflicts: water crisis

Full story: Christian Science Monitor

While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen's central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government's reach, another crisis - one that affects Yemen's entire population - has the potential to contribute to the country's instability and potential trajectory toward failure. Yemen is running out of water - fast. But the water crisis and the rise of militancy are not unrelated perils said Abdulrahman Al Eryani, Yemen's minister of Water and Environment, in an interview. Much of the country's rising militancy, he argues, is a conflict over resources.

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