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Safeguarding Our Water

We drink it, we generate electricity with it, we soak our crops with it. And we're stretching our supplies to the breaking point. Will we have enough clean water to satisfy the world's needs?

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Peter H. Gleick is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; a MacArthur Fellow; and winner of the 2018 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 284 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Safeguarding Our Water” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 284 No. 2 (), p. 0