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Just before sunrise, he tips his shell up, the water runs down into his mouth, has a good drink, goes off and hides for the rest of the day.
And those bumps are hydrophilic; they attract water.
Between them there's a waxy finish which repels water.
And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile than they would be if it was just a film of water over the whole beetle's shell.
So inside it's cool and humid, which means the plants need less water to grow.
And so to give you an idea of an analogy of what I mean by thinking of cancering as a verb, imagine we didn't know anything about plumbing, and the way that we talked about it, we'd come home and we'd find a leak in our kitchen and we'd say, "Oh, my house has water."
"Oh, you must have kitchen water."
"Kitchen water, well, first of all, we'll go in there and we'll mop out a lot of it.
Whereas living room water, it's better to do tar on the roof."
And I'm not saying you shouldn't mop up your water if you have cancer, but I'm saying that's not really the problem; that's the symptom of the problem.
For getting water, they would walk three hours every day to wells.
Feminism was the water I grew up in.
My son, soon after his first birthday, would say "gaga" to mean water.
No video here, so you can focus on the sound, the acoustics, of a new kind of trajectory: gaga to water.
Baby: Gagagagagaga Gaga gaga gaga guga guga guga wada gaga gaga guga gaga wader guga guga water water water water water water water water water.
So he didn't just learn water.
Nanny: You want water?
DR: She offers water, and off go the two worms over to the kitchen to get water.
And now we take the power of data and take every time my son ever heard the word water and the context he saw it in, and we use it to penetrate through the video and find every activity trace that co-occurred with an instance of water.
This is the wordscape for the word water, and you can see most of the action is in the kitchen.
On this map, the colored areas represent water conflicts.
In short, there was a lot of water and there weren't very many people.
But as more people showed up wanting water, the folks who were there first got a little concerned, and in 1865, Montana passed its first water law.
And in 1921, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in a case involving Prickly Pear that the folks who were there first had the first, or "senior water rights."
These senior water rights are key.
Some of these creeks have claims for 50 to 100 times more water than is actually in the stream.
So it's not just about the number of people; the system itself creates a disincentive to conserve because you can lose your water right if you don't use it.
There's a disincentive to conserve, because if you don't use your water right, you can lose your water right.
There's another thing happening around the country, which is that companies are starting to get concerned about their water footprint.
They're concerned about securing an adequate supply of water, they're trying to be really efficient with their water use, and they're concerned about how their water use affects the image of their brand.
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