Argentina Quote by Charles C. Mann

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

— Rohini Nilekani

By extorting water through permitting, leasing, and other use schemes, government bureaucrats have trampled on the rights of local communities.

— Lauren Boebert

Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers…

— Margaret Catley-Carlson

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

— Rose George

When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be…

— John de Ruiter

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call…

— Sandra Postel

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management…

— Sandra Postel

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will…

— James Howard Kunstler

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

— Charles Duhigg

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

— Joe Baca

Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue,…

— Charles C. Mann