Morgan and the principal author of the recent report Watching Water: A Guide to Corporate Risk in a Thirsty World.

FORBES: The Water-Industrial Complex

Mr. DEREK SCHEER (Clean Wisconsin): Because it's such a large portion of the world's freshwater and it is a thirsty world, there is more and more concern that folks will be coming after the Great Lakes as a source of drinking water outside of the Great Lakes basin.

NPR: Governors Meet on Access to Great Lakes

Even today, over a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan is still the world's second-biggest exporter of thirsty cotton.

ECONOMIST: Cotton