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I believe that the global water crisis is the most important ecological and human threat of our time.
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The speaker regards the worldwide water crisis as the most serious danger facing both the natural environment and human beings today. Calling it an “ecological and human threat” shows that its importance reaches beyond nature alone: it concerns people as well as the wider environment. “Of our time” presents it as the defining threat of the present era.
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