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Credit: Disney's Frozen II , Source YouTube Disney Kids. The Ocean Begins at the Pump Every drop of water on Earth is caught in a hydrologic cycle older than humanity itself, and its ultimate destination is the sea. Remember, Olaf’s speech about water having memory?! Monday, June 8th was World Oceans Day and the conversation naturally drifts toward popular climate pursuits, such as coral reefs and marine biodiversity. But I believe there is an additional hard reality we sho

In 2001, Mick Jagger released "God Gave Me Everything." It’s a high-energy anthem of rock-star optimism where he sings: "The water's free, the air is free / God gave me everything I want." It’s a great hook. It’s also an economic fantasy that hasn't aged well. In the twenty-five years since that song hit the airwaves, the world has entered a state of "water bankruptcy." We are staring down a massive global supply deficit by 2030 and a $58 trillion economic dependency on clean

Image Credit: FranceAdventurer.com , Pont du Gard For roughly 4,000 years—since the first primitive aqueducts were carved into the earth—humanity has treated water with a specific kind of logic: it is local, it is tied to the land, and it is "free." We’ve spent four millennia assuming that if you want water, you just look down or wait for it to fall from the sky. But as we head into SF Climate Week , that assumption isn't just outdated; it’s a dangerous. We are currently liqu

"If we spent $1 every second since the genesis of homo sapiens, we’d still have another 100,000 years to go before addressing the water scarcity gap."