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Water, Inc.
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NACLA Report on the Americas
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July 1, 2004
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Copyright informationCopyright North American Congress on Latin America Jul/Aug 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Access to water, an element essential to all life, is a basic human right.
NASA'S ONGOING MISSION TO MARS sttks to find signs of life on the red planet. To determine if extraterrestrial life ever existed there, the robotic rovers scour the rocky surface for one essential element: water. Indeed, life and water are inextricably linked.
The most enduring human societies owe their proliferation in large part to the rivers, lakes and other sources of freshwater that cradled their development. Today's global society is even more dependent on this finite resource. Unlike our addiction to fossil fuels, humanity's need for fresh water is utterly unavoidable.
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