Although this article is nearly 4 years old, we repost it for future reference. Most of it is still applicable and relevant to the current situation. I had noticed these peculiar storefront displays in the past, once gawking through painted windows at the mysterious interior of the Jesus-4-Less! Out with the Old, In With the Nouveau Riche.

Francis I whiffs on water. Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because. 1 How much water is ever.