Dissensions, however, soon broke out between the military faction and the civilians. In 1872 he was nominated for vice-president by the Democratic faction that refused to support Horace Greeley. The king thereupon reverted to the Russian faction and the Confederation lost the confidence of Europe. The Arrabbiati and the Medicean faction merged political differences in their common hatred to Savonarola.
When you turn on the tap and you see endless running water, it can be easy to forget that clean water is precious and hard to come by, and that if we arenât careful itâs going to become more difficult to find.
Pollution exacerbates the problem. Some 450 cubic kilometres of waste water are poured into the world's surface waters every year: two-thirds of the world's available runoff is used to dilute and bear it away. A world short of water is also an unstable world.