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Drought, Pollution, Politics Spark Water Crisis - Newsweek: Project Green - MSNBC.com By Mary Carmichael Newsweek June 4, 2007 issue - Daily life in the developed world has depended so much, for so long, on clean water that it is sometimes easy to forget how precious a commodity water is. The average American citizen doesn't have to work for his water; he has only to turn on the tap. But in much of the rest of the world, it isn't that simple. More than a billion people worldwide lack clean water, most of them in developing countries. The least fortunate may devote whole days to finding some. - Click title for link to article -