An article in the Canadian newspaper Niagara This Week discusses how the satirical premise of the cult-classic, 1984 sci-fi B-movie The Ice Pirates (which I thought was hilarious as an nine-year-old viewer) - that in the future, water would become a critical yet increasingly scarce resource (or commodity) over which mankind would do battle for control over - is increasingly becoming reality.
Oil may presently be considered to be a non-renewable resource needed to continue to grease the economies of the industrialized world, but water is a whole lot more important.
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