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Chapter 10, The Fate of Water, was my favorite chapter. In this chapter, Fishman overviews and presents his arguments that water crisis is not a global crisis, in fact, it is a local crisis. I like his argument that if there is a water problem in one place, people from another place cannot solve it because transporting the water system is impossible. Since all the water problems are solvable, people of a particular place, where they are having water issues, should try to confront the problem, tackle and then figure the ways to solve it. Conserving or limiting the water use at one place may not help solve water crisis at another place. However, I liked the way Fishman encourages people to learn and be conscious about the water problem seeing

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