As Malthus predicted if these trends continue to develop population would end up limiting there size, but it will not be voluntary. Instead this need for water, which so often taken for granted may be the cause of, whether directly or indirectly, famine, disease, poverty and war.
Before irrigation, most of the earth's population consisted nomads. This was not due to choice, in order to meet the bare requirements for survival it was essential to go to were ever they knew that these needs would be met, and because that place was constantly changing, so was their location. The few that did not move around as much lived near rivers and lake because, to stray from there could mean that there was a chance that one may not survive. When the idea of irrigation became popular, this changed greatly, because some people were able to do things other than agriculture, allowing the creation of artisans, merchants, etc. This essential created social stratification to likes of which have never been seen. The societies that were particularly mentioned were the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Sumerian among others. Though they were able to build some elaborate (considering the technology available) irrigation canals, the societies that have been based on them have never survived for more than a few thousand years. All of these societies have succumbed to salt, silt, the difficulties of controlling their source, as well as the depletion of their supply. All of these societies were extremely prosperous, but because of the deterioration of their irrigation systems nearly all of them have ceased to exist. This makes the question of whether or not our irrigation-based society will follow in the footsteps in the majority of our predecessors.
Despite that fact irrigation continues to be the basis on which modern society functions. Modern technology has allow an increase from eight millions hectares in 1800 to over 225 hectares in 1995.
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