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Water is vital to human life. With it, we thrive, along with our crops, our domesticated animals, our societies and our civilization. Without it, we die in as few as three days. For humanity, water is both a biological and social imperative, and both our history and our current geopolitical landscape are shaped by it to an extent that is seldom recognized or acknowledged.
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Leo, A., Lougheed, E., Swatuk, L.A., Fatch, J. (2018). The Social Flows of Water in the Global South: Recognizing the Water-Gender-Health ‘Nexus’. In: Swatuk, L., Cash, C. (eds) Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64024-2_7
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