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    <body><![CDATA[I'm surprised that it got so many good reviews, because this book didn't really do anything for me. I normally love reading about crises caused by things being commodified when they shouldn't be, but this book treated the issue pretty superficially and didn't really teach me anything new. The author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15483349">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Statistics and numbers, and so much of what you didn't know about water.<br/>Find out which company owns thirty different brands of bottled water, what they do to nature, how many litres in a toilet flush, etc. <br/><br/><br/> <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just listened to an incredibly inspiring interview with filmmaker and Fulbright Fellow Shalini Kantayya who was a participant on FOX’s &quot;On the Lot,&quot; Steven Spielberg's reality show.<br/><br/>According to Kantayya, in 20 years, two thirds of the world's population -- over four billion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9147110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I found this issue compelling and the book well-written.  Although I was certainly aware of many of these issues prior to reading this book, it brought more clarity into the truly terrifying water crises that are to come.  I would have enjoyed the book more had it not been repetitive in pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29930750">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scary. All you need to know is that in 2000 the U.N. said that &quot;water is not a right, it is a commodity.&quot; Result-poor people are gonna get royally screwed because they can't afford it as it's privitized.<br/>Fights over access to water will be the main reason for conflict as it continues ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Learning that the world is running out of water.  Also learning that it's inevitable and although people are trying to conserve, it's a drop in the bucket.  This author gets pretty melodramatic about it.]]></body>
    
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