It is perhaps too soon to start stocking up on bottled water and canned goods, as many wish they had in Greece.
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Children sell sugar cane, produce, and potable water while women carry goods from market to market selling products along the way.
When social entrepreneurs deliver power, water, and other goods to poor communities, they create foundations for economic growth, opening frontier markets to other forms of investment.
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The waterway, mainly built between 1813 and 1816, was the link between the River Wey in Surrey and the Arun in Sussex which made it possible to transport goods by water from London to the South Coast.
"I'll probably just get some water, maybe some canned goods, just to make sure I do have something in the house in case something does happen, " said another concerned shopper.
And as the international markets increasingly see sterling as a 'safe haven' in uncertain times, the prospect of a strengthening pound would make it even more difficult for local exporters to sell their goods across the water.
We can hope we just have a brush with one of these bio-eco-cyber-socio-quarkish blowouts, learn to pick up the pieces, and invest in rebuilding. (Think REITS, big construction firms such as Fluor , plus canned goods, bottled water and ammo.) The other choice is to privatize the solar system, pronto.
This is partly because elected local officials shift their efforts from expanding the economy to providing public goods, such as safe water.
Bottle water from your own faucet in plastic soda bottles, and gather canned goods you already have in the pantry.
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The degradation of water quality in surface and groundwater systems is further exacerbating water scarcity and negatively impacting our natural environment and the ecosystem services and goods that it provides, jeopardizing food security and livelihoods.
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Those goods would be food like meat, bread, milk, vegetables, water, whatever can be found.
Since not all goods consumed in one particular country are produced in that country, the water footprint consists of two parts: use of domestic water resources and use of water outside the borders of the country.
With the financial press slapping recession fears on page one, day after day, is it any wonder that not only raw materials stocks plumb new 1-year lows but capital goods stocks like US Steel sell at one third of year ago high water marks?
European sporting-goods companies give him free shoes and helmets, and a Romanian mineral-water company sponsors his cycling team, but that's about it.
He added that while the UK market seemed focussed on "white water" liquid milk, there was a "huge opportunity for growth" for processed goods in global markets such as China and the Far East.
The assumption is that the poor have limited or no access to goods as well as limited access to services like education, healthcare, clean water and basic utilities, and they only strive to survive, with much fewer social incentives compared to their wealthy counterparts.
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The list of suspect goods runs from heart and lung machines to wheelbarrows, from fire-fighting equipment to detergent, from water pumps to pencils.
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