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A Book By : ANITA RODDICK
with Brooke Shelby Biggs
 
Water is elemental, life-giving and sustaining. It is ours to drink, ours to play in, to
grow with, to build on. Water is more fundamental than any other substance on Earth:
You can live three weeks without food, but without water you’ll be dead in three days.
Over 1 billion people worldwide have no access to clean water within a 15 minute walk of their homes. Italians drink more bottled water than any other nationality worldwide - 107 liters per person per year.
Once a year in Stigomta, Sweden, citizens observe “Pee Outside Day” during which they save 50% of the muncipal water used on a typical day.
The profusion of dams worldwide has actually changed the shape of the Earth’s gravitational field.
A recent Pentagon report predicted that several major American cities could be underwater by 2020 because of global warming. The three largest water corporations will control 70 percent of the water in Europe and North America by the end of the decade.
In Plachimada, India, it is now easier to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than a glass of clean water.