There was a time when paying for a bottle of water seemed absurd to most. Now bottled water is a part of everyday life. Whatever the resource — water, oil, minerals or precious metals — it was once easy to assume the planet would never be running on empty. Today, we know better.
The human population has exploded in the past 100 years. Development has greatly altered the landscape. The crops we grow in the Midwest are as likely to be feeding people on the opposite end of the earth as they are local families. Water pumped in Pennsylvania might be
