As practitioners - educated & experienced in our respective broader fields/specialties - we all now fully realize & appreciate the very ...

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As practitioners - educated & experienced in our respective broader fields/specialties - we all now fully realize & appreciate the very key, even CRITICAL role of water in all our lives. The facts that: We can live longer without food than we can without water; that, agree or not with "Global Climate Change," the availability of ANY type of desalinized water is an increasing problem; and that over-use of toxic Chem's - &/or other wasteful processes - is causing increasingly serious damage to/infection&contamination of our Aquifers & natural waterways. The simple fact of the matter is: WE NOW HAVE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY TO CORRECT THESE PROBLEMS/RESTORE VITAL NEEDS! The only question remaining would seem to be; DO WE HAVE THE WILL/ABILITY TO SET ASIDE CONFLICTING INTERESTS & CONSTRAINTS, SO THAT THEY CAN BE EFFECTIVELY APPLIED? Hunger/malnutrition, subsistence agriculture, added economic pressures on those least able to afford them (e.g., a container of even the crudest water costing more than petrol!), are all now tightly connected/related to these natural resource issues. The time to get serious about them was YESTERDAY! Anyone else ready to "march"?

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  1. I'm currently seeking "strategic partners", to help launch a multi-national effort for halting the obscene - & ANNUAL - huge losses of harvested fresh produce. These losses are due, primarily, to early wilting/spoilage; which can quickly render vitally needed fresh produce from "unsalable" to "inedible" (sometimes even by livestock!) In a world where we still have huge pockets of severe hunger & malnutrition; and even in countries with largely vegetarian diet populations, such totally needless/wanton waste is unconscionable! And in many places of the world - where essential food growers & distributors are simply subsistence farmers, already "living on the edge" - the losses of income/profits (in many cases as much as 40%; as determined by actual "Field Studies", & not just "guesswork) of their annual harvests are now lost, & thereby totally irrelevant, even counterproductive, to overall development/anti-poverty efforts. Finally, IF some of our members are so narrowly focused on just WATER - use/availability/de-pollution - that this issue seems "irrelevant", please just consider, for a moment, how much of our rapidly dwindling water resources are required JUST for crop growing! "WASTE" is the enemy; pollution, misuse, inefficient production/harvesting/processing are the primary components of that enemy. And we humans ARE, now & for centuries, the great waste-makers. "Spaceship Earth" has many, many bounties to provide us with; but guess what: THEY ARE NOT "LIMITLESS"!! Keep up these wasteful habits/practices today, and we leave a fouled & barren Mother Earth for those to come.