From England to Southeastern U.S., changing climate is leading to devastating and deadly droughts that threaten to wreak social and ecological mayhem. In Britain's south the worst drought in 100 years has caused streams to vanish, once lush vegetation to die and reservoir levels to plunge. In Arizona the longstanding drought has been raised to a "red alert". These human caused droughts are just the tip of the iceberg (wait, those are being lost too). Humanity's climate changed future looks precarious indeed, with water shortages and excess being the first deadly incarnation of global ecological collapse.