You help make sure that the air we breathe, the water we drink, the foods we eat are safe.
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Pipelines and gas wells will inevitably leak or rupture, risking lives and fouling the environment where people live and further polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink.
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The answers are quite literally all around us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the places where we live, learn, work and play.
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In the rich countries, the air that we breathe and the water we drink or swim in is cleaner now than in 1900 or 1950, and it is clear that, given the will, it can be made cleaner in poor (and now increasingly more polluted) countries as well.
That's how we've made possible scientific research that has led to medical breakthroughs like the vaccine for Hepatitis B, and technological wonders like GPS. That's how we have Social Security and a minimum wage, and laws to protect the food we eat and the water we drink and the air that we breathe.
With every breath we take, every drop of water we drink, we are dependent on the existence of Earth's living ocean.
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From dirty energy that hurt breathing our lungs, water we drink and harm our children and all.
"What one of the things that we as a global community have been slow to realize is that even in an industrialized economy will still demand very directly on the health of natural systems to provide the water we drink and to keep the climate stable, " Leape said.
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The implications of discovering evidence for fresh water are exciting for macro-organisms as well: Rover chief scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has speculated that we would have been able to drink that ancient water, had we been there some 2, 3, or 4 billion years ago to witness glorious Lake Gale.
At a four-way crossroads we stopped to rest and drink water.
"The water that we drink every day has been around for millions of years and circulated through who knows what -- dinosaurs, black bears and panthers, " said David Czamanske of the Sierra Club.
The rover Curiosity's latest moves find evidence of water we might be able to drink if we were there several billion years ago.
We watched the drink become cloudy as the cold water reacted with the herbal oils -- a process known as "louching" -- then smelled the newly aromatic concoction again and finally, took a sip.
"We don't have anything to eat ... we don't even have some water to drink, " one woman said.
We can change the world one person at a time and one drink of water at a time.
We got the horse to the water, and someone else can make him drink.
We reduced our intake of sugary drinks and instead encouraged our kids to drink more water.
On Good Friday we have an opportunity to think about those who don't even have water to drink never mind alcohol.
We ate freeze-dried packaged food and had a mix that became an orange-grapefruit drink when water was added.
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