WATER: A RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCE
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water " -- Loren Eisely
Our Earth seems to be unique among the other known celestial bodies. It has water, which covers three-fourths of its surface and constitutes 60-70 weight % of the living world. Water regenerates and is redistributed through evaporation, making it seem endlessly renewable. So why worry?
Only 1% of the world's water is usable to us. About 97% is salty sea water, and 2% is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. Thus, that 1% of the world's water supply is a precious commodity necessary for our survival. 
 Water has long been a symbol of great power and wealth. This concept comes to our neighborhoods. It is estimated that 40,000 jobs and an estimated $1-billion a year in business activities depend on these resources. Proposals for transferring water from coastal rivers to city and county water systems in other parts of the state threaten the health of these ecosystems.
More than half of Georgia's land area drains into Georgia's coastal river basin systems. Coastal waters receive pollution from many sources upriver, including both rural areas and some of the Southeast's most rapidly urbanizing communities. As a result of increased pollution, protection of coastal water quality, fisheries, and nature-based economic interests is both a local and a statewide issue. – Source: SustainableCoast.org
Did You Know? As of April 4, 1936, the waterworks were located at Fort Wayne (formerly Fort Savannah) on the corner of East Broad Street and “the Strand” [renamed Bay Street after the Revolutionary War] near the Pirates' House restaurant.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Cambridge World History of Food: Water
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