Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water

[amyrose2712]

Water is the key to life. It is fundamental to all human activities. Water grows the food we eat, generates the energy that supports our modern economies and maintains the ecological services on which we all depend. Yet billions of people worldwide still lack access to the most basic human right: safe, clean, adequate water.

As you would expect, the vast majority of these people are among the poorest in the world, living in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.

Brent Stirton's images tell many stories if you know how to read them -- from the tragedy brought by lack of safe water or too much water, to the joy and life-changing effects that a new water system can offer. Hear the author describe Stirton's images in an audio slideshow


http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/23/what.matters.thirst/index.html

[JCMach1]

1. You realize the horror when visiting a city like Kathmandu

where the trace that gets in your mouth can kill you and it comes out the color of grey mud.

The open sewers run directly into the tributaries of the Ganges.

[floridablue]

2. Perhaps we will all wind up buying it from Bush*e

When he starts up his Paraguay water company.

[amyrose2712]

3. Yeah, him and T. Boone