Sentence examples for fighting over water from inspiring English sources

"People are fighting over water, over food and over other natural resources," she said.

Nine people were killed in a recent scrap near the central city of Ibb, and eight more died in February when people fighting over water in Sadah, in the north, started using heavy artillery.

"I always refer to us as the radical middle because there's nothing radical in the Klamath about fighting over water," said Craig Tucker, the Klamath coordinator for the Karuk Tribe of Northern California and a supporter of the 2010 agreement.

"I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive," she said in a 2011 interview with The Paris Review.

The deadline was part of an agreement reached two years ago among seven Western states, including California, that was meant to end fighting over water supplies from the Colorado River.

"Chihuahua can't send any water because Chihuahua doesn't have any water to send," he said, adding, "I may have different opinions on some issues with President Fox, but we are not fighting over water".

The CFP was formally created in 1983, stemming from the common agricultural policy of the early 1970s, but was never launched with the aim of protecting fish stocks, rather, to prevent member countries fighting over whose water was being fished.

This is not just Japan and China fighting over some rocks in unknown waters; it is the heart of the U.S. military alliance system.

"Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over," Mark Twain wrote.

Are they fighting over a toy?

"They could have been fighting over food, water, space.