Confronting the Challenges of Tomorrow, While Cherishing Today Our world today confronts current economic hardship, which represent both a challenge and an opportunity for us to assert our ability to work together for the good of all. Efforts to combat abuse and waste have fallen short. Many countries around the world suffer from the shortage of resources such as water and energy, which threatens their stability and whose capacity and resources disable them from containing the panic, thus necessitating, in such a situation, assistance for those countries in dealing with the crisis. Our world also confronts numerous environmental challenges such as limited and declining natural resources, climate change, drought and desertification, all of which require the redoubling of worldwide efforts to address them in order to safeguard the right of future generations to a secure life. The scarcity of water and energy threatens the eruption of conflicts in different parts of the world, and the nations of the world are therefore called upon to maximize the benefit from, and the proper management of, available water and energy resources while respecting and protecting the acquired rights of nations to utilize and further develop those resources. We must work together as a cohesive force to expedite development of natural resources, eliminate the abuse of the environment. Utilize today's technology to expand the desalinization of water increase and expedite the development of Alternative energy with an environmental balance. We must learn to appreciate what we have today while protecting and preserving our natural resources for our sake and for future generations. Draiman Draiman