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• I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system.

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  Children, Support Systems, Water

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times.

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  Water, Mind, Environmental

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Una de las señales del inminente Apocalipsis es la "amargura de todas las aguas", y cualquiera que viaje por Europa del Este, la antigua Unión Soviética y sus satélites -en todos los lugares donde funcionaba la economía dirigida, con su cruel desprecio por todo lo que no fueran principios abstractos y estrechos de miras- podría ser perdonado por pensar que el Apocalipsis ya no es inminente, sino que está en pleno clamor. Casi no hay río, arroyo o riachuelo que no esté contaminado por la escorrentía del mal uso humano, ya sean efluentes industriales, pesticidas y herbicidas agrícolas, o cosas peores.

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  Thinking, Europe, Rivers

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Más de 1.000 millones de personas no tienen acceso a agua potable limpia, y más de 2.900 millones no tienen acceso a servicios de saneamiento. La realidad es que cada ocho segundos muere un niño por beber agua contaminada, y la tendencia del saneamiento está empeorando bruscamente, sobre todo por el éxodo mundial del campesinado rural a los barrios marginales urbanos.

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  Children, Drinking, Reality

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• All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.

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  Distance, Two, People

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• Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

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  Country, Availability, Water

  Marq de Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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