This is something that has been bothering me for a while.这是一直困扰我一段时间。 The way most of us here in the United States of A. take the availability of safe drinking water for granted.大多数的道路，我们在美国的字母a.采取提供安全的饮用水是理所当然的。 Yet, lack of potable water is one of the major problems for the rest of earth’s population: 1.3 billion people lack access to it.然而，由于缺乏饮用水的主要问题之一，其余的地球人口： 1.3亿人无法获得它。 Millions of people die each year because of this, among them approximately 6,000 children every day .数以百万计的人死于每年因为如此，其中包括约6000儿童每天 。 This number will go up.这个数目会上升。 The USA does not have a water policy.美国没有水的政策。 Let me repeat that: Your government does not have a coherent plan to ensure future availability of safe drinking water for all of us.让我再说一遍说：贵国政府没有一个连贯的计划，以确保未来获得安全的饮用水我们所有的人。 Several sources have recently picked up on this issue and I’ll make some daring predictions:有几个来源，最近选择了在这个问题上，我会做出一些大胆的预测：
Prediction 1: The price of water right here in the US will increase tremendously over the next couple of years.预测1 ：水价权在美国将大幅增加，在未来的几年。 And rightly so.这样做是正确的。
Prediction 2: Increases in human population will lead to more armed conflicts that have water scarcity as one or their main causes.预测2 ：增加的人口将导致更多的武装冲突已经缺水的一个或其主要根源。
If you are one of those people that opens the faucet and leaves the water running during your morning shave, while brushing your teeth you will be in for a surprise in the near future.如果您是其中的一个人，打开水龙头，叶水运行在你早上刮胡子，而刷你的牙齿会非常吃惊在不久的将来。 Your water bill will (and should) go up.您的水费会（而且应该）去了。
Sources:来源：
Scientific American, Facing a Freshwater Crisis , July 2008 - Quiz: 20 Questions: Freshwater科学美国人， 面临淡水危机， 2008年7月-测验： 2 0问题：淡水
TomDispatch, Those hard rains are gonna fall , July 2008 TomDispatch ， 这些努力是一定降雨下降， 2008年7月
United Nations: Water: A Matter of Life and Death联合国： 水：一个生死攸关的问题
YouTube: Water: A Commodity? YouTube的： 水：一种商品？
