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Are You Thirsty?

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Tom Humbarger

Slideshare.net recently held the “world’s best presentation contest” and entry titled “Thirst” was the overall winner. Having run a user-generated contest, I am always curious about their process and results – and want to share the winning presentation in my blog.

Jeff Brennan describes his presentation as:

…an educational presentation exploring humanity’s water use and the emerging worldwide water shortage…

The presentation does present the facts about our water use in a very eye-catching and simplistic manner – and Jeff effectively makes his point that we all need to do more to conserve water and be aware that it is not a limitless resource.

The winning presentation is available below and all of the winners are available from the contest website.

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