Will democracy, freedom, equality and justice die the day the lights go out?

In the not-so-distant future, civilization will collapse.

In the aftermath, there will be factions seeking to dominate the one remaining commodity of wealth.

WATER.

No means of domination is too brutal to capture what is left to sustain life:

War. Propaganda to deem who is worthy of the water and who is not. Oppression and silencing of opposition, through disappearance and forced imprisonment.

And, the destruction of what is left of natural resources.

Including the water itself, if it will prevent those deemed unworthy of it from stealing access from those who are deemed worthy, predetermined by those who have decided they are the true authorities in the leftovers of the world.

Will democracy, freedom, equality and justice die the day the lights go out?