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Water Scarcity 101

aral sea drying upThis post was written in honor of Blog Action Day.

Water is a ubiquitous chemical substance that is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and is essential for all known forms of life. (In case you didn't already know - and thanks Wikipedia.) We all know that you cannot survive without access to clean water. Yet as watersheds around the world become dangerously polluted and bodies of water dry up due to climate change and misuse, our most precious resource is becoming increasingly scarce.