Crisis Quote by Jim Wright

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

— Jose Angel Gurria

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

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

I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major…

— Alexandra Cousteau

The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water, the oil…

— Rohini Nilekani

When you have a thousand children that die a day from lack of drinking water, that's a crisis and that's a crisis that we…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Water is one of the most basic and vital requirements for survival. And with the issue of water shortage aggravating every single day, it's…

— Harshvardhan Rane

At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going…

— Arundhati Roy

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since…

— Naoto Kan

People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure…

— Miroslav Lajcak

The next World War will be over water

— Ismail Serageldin

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the…

— Charles Eisenstein