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"?