Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future
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The Importance of Investing in Water Systems
The idea that we can turn our tap and have incredibly cheap, incredibly pure water delivered to us is something many of us in the sort of richer part of the world take for granted. But there are billions of people today worldwide that don't have access to safe water and sanitation. That's really what I define as water poverty. And even in the US, as you said, where tap water is almost always safe to drink, we have under-invested in our public water supplies.
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