Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It's a crisis because it only starts with water -- but water affects everything in life. Health.

Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It's a crisis because it only starts with water -- but water affects everything in life. Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women and children, especially.

We can end the water crisis in our lifetime. But first we have to let everyone know it's happening. Learn how water changes everything -- and share this with everyone you know. Visit our website here.

- There are islands in the Chesapeake Bay that have already succumbed to sea level rise, one of them is Holland Island.

- Even in a best case scenario, the consensus is that we'll get

- There are islands in the Chesapeake Bay that have already succumbed to sea level rise, one of them is Holland Island.

- Even in a best case scenario, the consensus is that we'll get at least two feet of sea level rise by the year 2100.

- One big question is: What will happen when flooding gets worse and worse and people decide there's no hope for them anymore to live in their respective towns.

Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian whose stories on science, technology, and nature have appeared in a host of national magazines. Since 2003 he has worked mainly as a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest is The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future.

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