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I am regularly asked how I can remain optimistic in spite of what I know about the world’s water challenges. There certainly is plenty of depressing news about water shortages being reported in the global news media. The Internet search engine that I have set up on my computer automatically delivers a continual stream of stories about water struggles around the world, each day bringing more bad news of people, economies, and ecosystems that are suffering under water scarcity.
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Richter, B. (2014). Chasing Hope. In: Chasing Water. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-537-3_8
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