Wellcome Collection on Instagram: "Water is a vital part of life, yet only 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh. The earliest account of a war for water comes from the Sumerian poem ‘Gilgamesh and Aga’ from the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’, composed around 2100–2000 BCE. King Aga demands to enslave the subjects of King Gilgamesh of Uruk to dig wells for his city. Aga threatens to cut off Uruk’s water supply upstream on the Euphrates River if Gilgamesh refuses. A blend of historical record and mythology, the