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Located?” U.S. Geological Survey (ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html).

56. Ibid.

57. Ger Bergkamp and Claudia W. Sadoff, “Water in a Sustainable Economy,” State of the World 2008 (Washington, D.C.: The Worldwatch Institute, 2009), p. 107.

58. Ibid., p. 108.

59. World Health Organization and UNICEF, Water for Life: Making It Happen (Geneva: WHO Press, 2005), p. 5.

60. “Human Appropriation of the World’s Fresh Water Supply,” University of Michigan Global Change Program (globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current

/lectures/freshwater_supply/freshwater.html).

61. Bergkamp and Sadoff, “Water in a Sustainable Economy,” p. 108.

62. Maude Barlow, “A UN Convention on the Right to Water—An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” Blue Planet Project, November 2006 (blueplanetproject.net/documents/UN_

convention_MB_Dec06.pdf).

63. “Running Dry,” The Economist, August 21, 2008. The quote “water is the oil of the 21st century” was from Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow Chemical Company.

64. “The Soft Path for Water,” Pacific Institute (pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustain ability/soft_path/index.htm).

65. “‘Virtual Water’ Innovator Awarded 2008 Stockholm Water Prize,” Stockholm International Water Institute (siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=25).

66. Quote appears on the Water Footprint website: waterfootprint.org/?page=files/home.

67. Bergkamp and Sadoff, “Water in a Sustainable Economy,” p. 114.

68. “Dublin Statements and Principles,” Global Water Partnership (gwpforum.org/servlet/PSP?iNodeID=1345).

69. Ray Anderson, “The business logic of sustainability,” TED talk filmed February 2009, posted May 2009 (ted.com/talks/ray_anderson_on_the_business_

logic_of_sustain ability.html).

70. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities, and the Environment, Earthworks and Oxfam America, 2004, p. 4 (nodirtygold.org/pubs/DirtyMetals.pdf).

71. “Bingham Canyon Mine,” Wikipedia (wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine).

72. Rich Lands Poor People: Is Sustainable Mining Possible? Centre for Science and the Environment, 2008, p. 1 (cseindia.org/programme/industry/

pdf/miningpub.pdf).

73. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment, p. 4.

74. Ibid.

75. Ibid.

76. “Mining: Safety and Health,” International Labour Organization (ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/sectors

/mining/safety.htm).

77. “Mineworkers Rights,” GRAVIS (gravis.org.in/content/view/26/46/).

78. “1872 Mining Law,” Earthworks (earthworksaction.org/1872.cfm).

79. Ken Geiser, Materials Matter (Boston: MIT Press, 2001), p. 170.

80. Ibid.

81. “H.R. 699: Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009,” Congressional Research Service summary, GovTrack (govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111–699&tab=summary).

82. Radhika Sarin, No Dirty Gold: Consumer education and action for mining reform (Washington, D.C.: Earthworks, 2005), pp. 305–6.

83. “Why a Campaign Focused on Gold?” No Dirty Gold (nodirtygold.org/about_us.cfm).

84. “Poisoned Waters,” No Dirty Gold (nodirtygold.org/poisoned_waters.cfm).

85. “Cyanide process,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/147730/cyanide-process).

86. “The Gold Discovery That Changed the World: Coloma, California, 1848,” Coloma Valley website, adapted from Discover Coloma: A Teacher’s Guide, by Alan Beilharz (coloma.com/gold/).

87. Pratap Chatterjee, Gold, Greed and Genocide (Berkeley, Calif.: Project Underground, 1998).

88. “NIH Mercury Abatement Program,” National Institutes of Health, Office of Research Facilities (orf.od.nih.gov/Environmental+Protection/Mercury+Free/).

89. Rebecca Solnit, “Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf,” Orion, September/October 2006 (orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/176/).

90. “The Golden Rules,” No Dirty Gold (nodirtygold.org/goldenrules.cfm).

91. “Combating Conflict Diamonds,” Global Witness (globalwitness.org/pages/en/conflict_diamonds.html).

92. “Leaders of diamond-fuelled terror campaign convicted by Sierra Leone’s Special Court,” press release from Global Witness, February 26, 2009 (globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/723/

en/leaders_of_diamond_fuelled_terror_

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