Where Has All the Water Gone?

WHERE HAS ALL THE WATER GONE?
(Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?)

Where have all the fountains gone?
We’re so thirsty!
Where have all the fountains gone?
Our throats are dry.
Where have all the fountains gone–
Cracked and broken, every one.
Big Water bottled them. Big Water bottled them.

Where are all the babbling brooks?
We can’t hear them.
Where are all the bubbling springs?
Dusty and still.
Where are all the limpid pools,
Swimming holes and minnow schools?
Big Water bottled them. Big Water bottled them.

Where have all the glaciers gone
Snow white and shining?
Where are all the icy tarns to keep things green?
Where are all the trout-filled lakes?
Plasticized, for heaven’s sakes!
Big Water bottled them. Big Water bottled them.

Where have all the rivers gone,
Deep and winding?
Once the San Lorenzo flowed
Down to the sea.
Where the herons used to glide,
Now there’s just a salty tide.
Big Water bottled it. Big Water bottled it.

Where have all the oceans gone, vast and rolling?
Cradle of all living things, aeons ago?
Where are all the mighty whales,
Plankton, krill and tiny snails?
Desalinated now. Desalinated now.

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