Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. — Mike McAlary Copy Share Image
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will… — Mostafa Kamal Tolba Copy Share Image
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less,… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
“The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources,… — Ron Nielsen Copy Share Image
The [Donald] Trump administration is making it very clear that they intend to destroy our only drinking water resource on the Standing… — Chase Iron Eyes Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“Another thing they talk about a lot is water—and that’s a very crucial thing, which is not discussed very much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by… — Jan Erik Vold Copy Share Image
There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want to work in water resources, as I think creating a string of check dams and utilizing water better is far… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal… — Luna Leopold Copy Share Image
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image