No matter how you look at it, water is fundamental to life on this planet. It was part of the raw material of creation in the formless void that Genesis describes, and water is certainly a key ingredient in the primordial soup that pop cosmology serves up to explain the origins of life.
Water accounts for most of the volume of living cells.
Yet, as important as water is, the United States lacks a coordinated policy to ensure that its citizens will have the water that they and their descendants will need to survive. This is by no means to say that water is neglected. He estimates that state and local governments have up to three times as many employees dedicated to water, and that there are another 50,000 private sector employees working on water issues. Unfortunately, the hundreds of thousands of people and the agencies and organizations they work for are not all laboring within a common policy framework. Sometimes, instead of complementing one another, they find themselves working at cross purposes.