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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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Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.

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

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Marq de Villiers

Marq de Villiers

Born: 1940 (age 84)

Bio: Marq de Villiers is an award-winning South African-Canadian writer and journalist. He now chiefly writes non-fiction books on scientific topics. In the past he also worked as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent.

Known for:

Water (1999)
Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold (2007)
The heartbreak grape (1994)
Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather (2006)
Sahara: A Natural History (2002)

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