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March 21, 2006

Water Crisis Causing Mass Suffering

The global crisis in drinking water availability is now one of the main causes of extreme suffering around the world. Some 1.1billion people have no access to safe water, 2.6 billion do not have basic sanitation and water borne disease fills half the world's hospital beds. In the hyper-abundant rich world one can only imagine the horror that is life without water. The situation is indicative of collapsing ecosystems and human civilization.

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