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As countries across Africa face growing pressure over shared water resources, USC water scientists argue that one of the most powerful tools for preventing conflict may be found not at the negotiating table, but in the mathematical models used to understand water itself.

Essam Heggy, a research scientist in USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and AI’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-founder of the USC Water ReUse and Resource Recovery Center, believes that African water conflicts are driven less by an absolute lack of water than by uncertainty over how much water will be available under extreme climate conditions like droughts, and how that supply may change.