Water, water everywhere

The UN Report, Beyond Scarcity, begins with these quotes:

The water is not good in this pond. We collect it because we have no alternative. All the animals drink from the pond as well as the community. Because of the water we are also getting different diseases.
Zenebech Jemel, Chobare Meno, Ethiopia

Of course I wish I were in school. I want to learn to read and write…. But how can I? My mother needs me to get water.
Yeni Bazan, age 10, El Alto, Bolivia

The conditions here are terrible. There is sewage everywhere. It pollutes our water. Most people use buckets and plastic bags for toilets. Our children suffer all the time from diarrhoea and other diseases because it is so filthy.
Mary Akinyi, Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

They [the factories] use so much water while we barely have enough for our basic needs, let alone to water our crops.
Gopal Gujur, farmer, Rajasthan, India

And it goes on from there documenting some of the problems many people have because they lack clean water: more deaths than from AIDS and malaria combined, five times as many kids die from water-borne diseases as from AIDS and malaria, water is more expensive per gallon in Kenya than in New York, 5% of Africa's resource of time is spent gathering water.