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Fresh water is way more valuable than oil!
+ The 20th century was the age of oil. The 21st will be the age of water.
+ Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry.
+ Water scarcity is now a bigger threat than the financial crisis.
+ Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
+ New methods of natural gas drilling require vast amounts of water and leave it poisoned, at least one third of the fresh water used becomes chemical waste and must be disposed of as hazardous, removed permanently from the water cycle.
Frack-Me-Not (Pdf)
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