Try
to forget this factoid:
Most
of Earth’s water is undrinkable, and most of the drinkable stuff is
inaccessible—permanently.
Our
customary sources of drinking water—rivers and streams—hold only
six-thousandths of 1 percent of all potable water. The rest is in polar ice
caps, glaciers, aquifers and lakes (most of them inconveniently located for
most human beings).
Think
about what global warming might do to surface water supplies around the world.
Stocking
up on bottled water is a short-term solution.
Source:
Water: The Epic Struggle for
Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
New
York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010
Reviewed
on DelanceyPlace.com
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