About Quote by Ian Goldin

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

— Jerry Costello

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even…

— Ann Bancroft

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

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe,…

— Vandana Shiva

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of…

— Luna Leopold

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water…

— Penelope Cruz

“With good land-use management, water scarcity can even be a useful tool for containing the heedless sprawl of human habitation. Unfortunately,”

— David Owen

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

— Joan Didion

Water projects bring people together and offer improved health, a better quality of life and hope for a better future.

— Cedella Marley

We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the…

— Mostafa Kamal Tolba

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

— Kofi Annan