As I ponder the incalculable suffering of children, I read the following lines in the poem “Report from the Besieged City,” by the late Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, in a translation by John Carpenter and Bogdona Carpenter.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/10/gazas-most-vulnerable-victims/

To sustain our rivers and lakes for the incalculable benefits to people and planet, we must all coordinate and collaborate our conservation actions, including those for cross-border rivers and lakes.

Source: https://www.africa.com/tailored-protection-of-lakes-and-rivers-must-benefit-communities/