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Mon Feb 17, 2014, 12:54 PM Feb 2014

Stay Hydrated, Challenge Corporate Power, Defend All Earthlings | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Feb. 10, 2014

“If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

- Bruce Lee

Walk down most streets on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on a weekday morning and you’ll find yourself dodging the watery spray kicked up by dozens of hose-wielding doormen cleansing the pavement for the daily parade of designer shoes and custom running sneakers.

(Stick close, this is gonna be a meandering path)

Men hired for the primary purpose of holding open doors for the affluent spend each daybreak dousing the sidewalks with gallons and gallons of H2O to clear cigarette butts from prime real estate.

I wonder how many of them realize that only 3 percent of the Earth’s total water is freshwater. Of that, a mere 1 percent is available for human consumption. Do the math and you’ve got a grand total of 0.01 percent of the Earth’s total water being usable.

Still, if utilized more judiciously, this amount is enough to support the world’s human population three times over.

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