empowering women and girls in other countries around the world has been very important to stability, to economic prosperity.

We need a higher public priority on water use in this country.

Many of us in the United States take water for granted, but globally, 800 million people do not have access to safe drinking water.

Thank you very much. We would like that very much for the record.

In mentioning both droughts and--and the flooding that we've seen in the West are a product of natural variability, and we've had to deal with that.

Are there areas, either in the United States or around the world, where you're working with governments to address specific water challenges, where you've seen success?

There's increasing recognition that water scarcity raises tensions between Nations and may be a driver of armed conflict.

Do you feel like you have adequate data? Do you also have adequate ways to either regulate or incentivize compliance with those----

Thank you. Again, I know several of you have planes to catch. While we could go on much longer, and because it's a fascinating topic, and obviously, one that we need to pay more attention to.

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I believe Menendez-Kirk amendment is going to pass.