"Today, however, we have to realise that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” 
—Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, 49
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"Fresh drinking water is an issue of primary importance, since it is indispensable for human life and for supporting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Sources of fresh water are necessary for health care, agriculture and industry. ...Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity to privatise this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe, drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such is a condition for the exercise of other human rights…" 
 —Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, 28-30.

... and yet the Murray-Darling River Basin in Australia has become an ecological disaster. 
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