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My friend’s grandma never drank water. “That’s for horses,” she would say. Instead, she drank cafe au lait or orange juice. My own grandma rarely drinks water, usually preferring coffee or juices. A lot of people in the developed world are this way, even those who are told by their doctors that they are dehydrated. There…
The Endangered Waters Beneath Our Feet
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on May 22, 2012 
Last week, the conservation organization American Rivers released its annual list of the nation’s most-endangered rivers. I got to thinking, what if we had a sister list of most-endangered aquifers? After all, water from underground meets 20 percent of U.S. water demand for drinking, crop irrigation and everything else. It also provides the…
Fire and Rain: The One-Two Punch of Flooding After Blazes
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on August 31, 2011 
The great balls of fire that leapt from treetop to treetop in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico earlier this summer, threatening the town of Los Alamos and a federal nuclear research laboratory, were apocalyptic enough. They left behind a scorched landscape of dead trees, charred woods and blackened earth. From June 26 until…
Who’s Skipping School?
Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on May 16, 2011 The new Nat Geo movie, The First Grader, tells the story of a Kenyan man in his 80s who applies for a coveted spot in school along with first graders. Revisit some recent National Geographic articles illustrating the challenges which defeat many would-be students, and how education can change a life, and possibly a culture.
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Ninety-five percent of Americans say water delivery is more important than access to energy sources and internet and cell phone service, according to a survey released last week by ITT, a $10.9-billion company with a $3.5-billion water engineering and infrastructure business. ITT also asked survey participants* if they think federal, state, and local governments should…
