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Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
by Fred Pearce
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Published Apr 2007
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by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
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by Tim Flannery
Published Mar 2006
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by Ross Gelbspan
Published Nov 2005
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