Considering rising temperatures, desertification and because the Omo is the main water source for several Ethiopian and Kenyan tribes, the dam could potentially cause violent conflict.
[1] Professor Aaron Wolf identified the problem's two major factors as:economic and population growth, and institutional capacity, or "human systems built to mitigate the change".
"They have stopped our Turkana people from fishing, they have thrown us out of the pastures, we can't access the waters.
In May 2011, a dozen Ethiopians allegedly killed Kenya's head of the Border Police, John Nunyes, a Kenyan Parliament member who visited the Turkana community.
Before dramatic climate changes, the area inhabited by the Turkana people enabled the sustainability of livestock herds.
For example, the international community sent foods such as maize, which cannot be eaten raw and requires a lot of water to cook.