After summiting the craggy Ragged Jacket, 2, 462ft, and 2, 782ft-high Mount Meader's sparsely pine-covered crest without finding a water source, we needed to get back down to Wild River as soon as possible to refresh and refill.

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Despite finding water on the third, the 33-year-old pitched to three feet to save par and birdied three of the next four holes to move into pole position.

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Simply finding enough drinking water can be a tactical challenge on a 35-mile run through the mountains.

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We sat up and dropped our lures into the water, quickly finding out that keeping one's surfboard steady in a 10-foot swell while trying to fish a reef makes for a clumsy operation.

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In the Ogaden, in south-east Ethiopia, people are crowding into camps in the hope of finding water.

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For one thing, the amount of BPA finding its way into everyday life soared, thanks to the bottled-water craze.

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To do so they're pushing the frontiers of imaging technology to peer beneath miles of water, rock and salt layers thousands of feet thick--all in the hopes of finding billions of barrels of oil trapped below.

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Aside from the sweltering daytime heat and the freezing night-time temperatures, the biggest problem for folks living in desert regions is finding sources of water.

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What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?

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