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Billions of dollars in annual trade has slowed to a trickle.

“Water touches everything in life. The effects of its irreversible decline are bound to trickle into everything.”

What will happen to their already modest salaries when draconian education cuts trickle down to every state and political loyalty tests are likely to be administered?

Information trickled out through the CDC’s communications office, but CDC scientists gave no press briefings and went dark on their closest partners across the country.

"Russia is like water: where there are cracks in the cement, it trickles in," says Dr Kathryn Stoner, political scientist at Stanford University.