American Voices

Many Lack Potable Water

September 1, 2004 | ISSUE 40•35

According to a recent U.N. report, more than one billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. What do you think?

  • The law of nature is 'adapt or die.' If those one billion people want to survive, they'll just have to evolve past the need to drink water.

    Jennifer Gerber
    Auditor

  • Yesterday, I poured a bunch of water down the drain after cooking some pasta. I could've helped an African with that water. I'm so stupid!

    Jesse Miller
    Clerk

  • This problem will be gone as soon as the earth's temperature increases enough to boil the world's lakes and streams, effectively sterilizing them.

    Mark Kunde
    Systems Analyst

  • I'm sorry, but if these people are too lazy to refill their Brita pitchers...

    Kristin Leffe
    Publicist

  • When I was a kid growing up in Love Canal, we didn't have uncontaminated water. Did we complain about it? No. We just shut up and got cancer.

    Mark Henley
    Musical Director

  • Thus we see the first tremors of what history will someday call 'The Volvic Wars.'

    Jeffrey Larsen
    Usher

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