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Aired Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 5:00 PM ESTTo Know Water Is to Love WaterA Conversation With “Hydro-luminary” Jim Lauria“We humans, without water, we’re sunk.” — Swami BeyondanandaWater is life.It has been said many times and many ways … and it is true.Not only do we humans require water, but every human endeavor does as well — agriculture, energy, industry, business, recreation. Even the “cloud” requires water, because the more information being stored and used, the more water is needed to cool the servers. The good news is, if we humans work together to manage our most precious “we-source”, we also create the pathway to manage all of our other collective problems.Our guest this week Jim Lauria, has had a lifelong love affair with water. From his childhood in Queens at a time when New York City was famed for having the best water in the world, to his travels as an engineer to countries across the globe, to his current mission, a book called “To Know Water Is To Love Water,” Jim is a true “hydro-luminary”, a