confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions — but it can often limit our abili… - Peter Diamandis

John Oldfield, managing director of the WASH Advocacy Initiative, which is dedicated to solving global water challenges, explains it this way: "The best way to control population is through increasing child survival, educating girls, and making knowledge about and availability of birth control ubiquitous. By far the most important of these is increasing child survival."

If we were to forgo our television addiction for just one year, the world would have over a trillion hours of cognitive surplus to commit to share projects.

twenty-five poorest countries already spend twenty percent of their GDP on water. This twenty percent, about thirty cents, ain't much, but do the math again: four billion people spending thirty cents a day is a $1.2 billion market every day. It's $400 billion a year.