The same scene played itself out on the South Asian peninsula (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay), Africa and even in the US, where the state of Arizona once sent a force of armed police to the border with California in protest against California's building a dam that would affect the flow of the Colorado River.
這樣的場景同樣上演在印度半島（印度、巴基斯坦和孟加拉）、中南美洲（阿根廷、巴西、巴拉圭）、非洲，甚至連美國歷史上都曾發生亞利桑納州徵召軍警到加州邊界，抗議加州興建水壩，影響科羅拉多河流量。