The U.N. General Assembly in July unanimously recognized access to fresh water as a basic human right. But according to writers Jeneen Interlandi and Ryan Tracy in Newsweek's Oct. 18 cover story, that basic human right is in jeopardy in much of the world, including high-growth regions of the U.S. In an earlier 2008 Scientific American article, professor Michael Weber, director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, put in focus how critically interdependent are access to fresh water and the energy needed to deliver it.
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