The place where we were OPERATING was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic WORK had not been DONE in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed PROPERLY, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.

I THINK the health of our water is TIED to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our ECONOMY, the health of our basic HUMAN RIGHTS.

During the Holocene, we UNDOUBTEDLY altered our ENVIRONMENT significantly, clearing land, diverting WATER and building GREAT cities.

All communities have a RIGHT to clean WATER. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to CARRY the burden of the clean up cost simply because they LIVE downstream.

Being a FISH out of WATER is TOUGH, but that's how you EVOLVE.

I CAME to water LATE. I LEARNED to swim at the AGE of 20.

I was so BUSY fighting and so busy TRYING to keep EVERYTHING above WATER that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to GO.