Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think first I will compliment all of my colleagues. They have pretty well said most of what I was going to say. I wasn't going to say as much as they were, but everyone spoke quite eloquently about how important water is. The only area that really wasn't touched, although it was started, is what do we do without water and it's kind of a puzzling question. I don't know where we can go. Water is one of those amazing elements out there. You know, we need air and lights and stuff, but water is just one of the profound things that we are challenged to imagine for a moment what do we do without water. I guess it's something that we have to define today is how important and how critical it is. If we can define that, then we can say, well, water needs to be principally available for everyone in a fair way, we need to strive to bring those lessons forward.
One of my colleagues mentioned war, and it's true. People have gone to war over love, over hate, they've gone to war over power and land, for rocks that they don't even care about, but someday the challenge of the future really may be water. I mean the respect of our water may be a challenge. Today this Assembly is defining water needs to be an important role. We've heard people talk about how their elders have always said its an essence of who they are, that can't be overstated in any way and it's the truth, it really is, it's who we are.
Mr. Speaker, today we talk about the basics of who we are. Water is a principle of life and I'm glad to see that we're at least talking about it, because someday this discussion will come where water will be a shortage and we're going to ask ourselves what did we do about it or how did we think about it at the time. It's days like today we at least get the discussion out there to set a course about relevant issues. This is a relevant issue. It may be even a defining issue eventually, but I'm glad this House is taking it into some type of a discussion, as well as a serious note. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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