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Polls show that people consider drinking water the most important public health and environmental issue, but environmental policies don’t always reflect this. Most water pollution is caused by human activities. Growing food, producing energy for electricity and transportation, making products and building communities — all are activities that impact water. You might think that these and other activities would be planned and manage to limit their risks to water. But that is not often the case. Instead, contamination and destruction of water resources are allowed to happen. Communities are left