World power Water

Part 1: Overview and review 2026

From Michael Ghanem

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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.

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Edition: 0
Publication date: 10.03.2026
From Michael Ghanem
Language: English

Data: Softcover

ISBN: 978-3-384-85118-5
Pages: 416
Dimensions and bleed: 17 x 22 cm
Weight: 718,9g
Production time: 5 Business days

Data: Hardback

ISBN: 978-3-384-85119-2
Pages: 416
Dimensions and bleed: 17 x 22 cm
Weight: 879,8g
Production time: 6 Business days

Data: E-Book

ISBN: 978-3-384-85120-8
Corresponds to 527 standard pages

About the author

More about Michael Ghanem

Born in 1949, he grew up in France and graduated from an elite French university for industrial engineers. After moving to Germany, he studied economics, sociology, political science, philosophy and ethics. In the field of philosophy, he was strongly influenced by the philosophy and teachings of Zarathustra, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Aquinas, Ibn Khaldun, Niccolo Machiavelli, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Auguste Comte, Arthur Schopenhauer, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, Karl Jaspers, and Erich Fromm. In the field of economics, he was strongly influenced by post-Keynesians and behavioural economists. He is highly critical of the teachings of Milton Friedman, the Chicago Boys, the Frederick School and Friedrich A. Hayek. His professional career first took him to an international organisation, where he worked for five years as a project controller for major water projects, mainly in Africa, and thanks to this, he was able to get to know a large number of countries and their leaders. He then worked for many years for a European organisation and several international consulting firms. He considers himself a critic of current globalisation and has been strongly committed to water management and economics issues since 1974. These experiences have given him a deep understanding of geopolitical issues and enabled him to assess current political developments, particularly in the context of economic interdependencies. Since his retirement, he has been living a secluded life in Bonn and working as a writer. In his publications, he focuses primarily on the pressing social, economic and political issues of our time, as well as water management. To date, he has published numerous works on politics and geopolitics, society and economics. Other key topics include health, identity, racism, the environment, migration, water management, Africa, demographic development and alternative economic systems such as anti-fragility economics. He has also published several short stories and fairy tales.