Water
One of the absolute needs for all people is clean drinking water as well as water for farming and waste treatment. Almost the entire Russia, Central Asia, and China region is one of agriculture, herding, with scattered industrial centers and some former government research centers. Finding, purifying, transporting, and trading water is of major importance in this region. Water as a political weapon is clearly coming into focus, as limited resources in certain areas make unsolvable problems for the affected governments. Fiber networks such as GLORIAD could help link these governments to information on to develop, purify and maintain water resources that are similarly important in the west, but which have been solved in many ways.
