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Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future

Climate One

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The Second Age of Water

This second age of water is what you define as our current age. And this has been defined by advances of in engineering that have essentially re-plumbed the entire planet. It's brought along unintended consequences, pollution, ecological disruption, conflict, climate change and then a term that you use water poverty. So water poverty is simply the failure today to provide everyone on the planet with safe water and sanitation.

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