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The Most Precious Thing In The World Is Water
God taught me many things. However, one of the most important was that water is the most precious thing in the world. Just imagine what life would be like if we pollute our water!
 joe9  30 Jun 2008 08:34
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Water is life that's all there is to it, with out water the human race would die very quickly and all life on earth would become extinct just because something is in abundance does not mean we should every take it for granted.
 
 maugatar  06 Jul 2008 18:12
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I totally agree, if we didn't have water, we'd be dead within a couple of days, because without water our bodies can't function.
 
 Aims  03 Jul 2008 22:43
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 Without air we would be gone in 10-15 minutes.
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Definitely, it's is important, and always has been to sustain life.
 
 Mega_Bowl  01 Jul 2008 19:17
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Yes, but I'm not coming at it from the "God" told me standpoint. Speaking scientifically, less than 5% of all the water in the world is fresh water and most of that is frozen in the poles. The various fresh water sources around the world are already badly polluted to various degrees. We have technologies which can purify quite a bit but they're not nearly at the scale to meet all our needs. Water has said to be the new "oil" for this next century.
 
 Grenache  01 Jul 2008 01:16
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Of course. This sort of goes without saying. Without water, nothing living would be able to survive. Every single, living, breathing organism on the face of the Earth needs water or it will die. 75% of the human body is made up of water.

I do also agree that we need to stop polluting our water. We need to take care and preserve the water that we have. It does not take much to eliminate waste properly. We need to stop dumping it into our water supply.
 
 Flash  30 Jun 2008 15:17
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Yes water is very precious on this earth.
 
 nupur  30 Jun 2008 11:45
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I totally agree that CLEAN water is very precious~
 
 Zman676  30 Jun 2008 10:46
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I absolutely agree with this. Every single second in the world is using water in many ways such as cleaning, bathing, drinking and lots more. Just imagine one day, the whole world is out of water or the water been polluted, many things can't be done nor continue. So, water is really precious & important.
 
 Shelly1805  30 Jun 2008 09:19
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The first sentence of Hidell's comment is why I am voting no. The rest I think is seriously dodgy.
 
 Quincel  30 Jun 2008 15:50
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 I agree, but I still think that water is the most precious thing on earth
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 03 Jul 2008 22:54
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Water is the most common, and therefore least precious, thing on this planet. In fact, there is far too much of it. We are the dominant species. We are land dwellers. Yet we have to put up with a planet three quarters of which is water? That is ridiculous. We should try and change the proportions of land and water on the planet to ones more befitting our status as the dominant species.

We should develop geo-engineering techniques and use them to transform the surface of the Earth to 50% water and 50% land. After that, we can take stock and see if we want to go further. This would also help solve the problem of overpopulation on Earth. Indeed, the problem of overpopulation is being looked at in the wrong way by most people. It is not a problem of too many people. It is a problem of too much water. The water takes up the land the people should be living on.

Water is a threat to us. Because of its massive extent and depth, it is hard for us to scan it properly for threats. It's possible that a new dominant species could evolve in the murky depths of the ocean then come up and conquer us. Sooner or later, the aquatic threat is going to have to be dealt with, perhaps after the War on Terror is over.
 
 Hidell  30 Jun 2008 15:13
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 You miss the problem of overpopulation. It isn't that we physically don't have space, it is that we don't have sufficient resources or resource management to cope. You think we are literally running out of space on our 25% of the globe? We have huge rural areas where almost no-one lives (most of Africa for example has a very low population density). We don't need more land, we need more resources from it, or less resource use from us.

I'm also not convinced we should fear water. Yes a new species could emerge and overwhelm us, but it's pretty unlikely. Just as we needn't create giant death rays to protect us from an Independance Day style attack, we don't need to prepare for the battle of the sea.
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