cover story How's the Water? For each of us, water is life. We want it clean. We want it pretty. We want plenty of it. Dead fish? No. Sewage? No.
Can we have all the clean, pretty water we want?
Maybe. The answer seems equal parts politics, business, science, and plain common sense.
stories by Angela Spivey, Christopher Hammond, and Julia Bryan 1. will the rivers go belly up? 2. who's spilling what? 3. the persistence of waste 4. the long shadows of growth 5. pipe dreams