Accepting Quote by John Breaux

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even…

— Nina Easton

After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at the coast.…

— Wangari Maathai

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is…

— Billy Tauzin

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

— Paul Hawken

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately,…

— Sylvia Earle

We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is…

— Sonny Perdue

Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river.…

— Aldo Leopold

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet…

— Hal Borland

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

If a storm threatens Louisiana, it takes cooperation at each level of government to help protect the public.

— John Bel Edwards

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And…

— Jay Nixon

Coastal restoration and a robust offshore energy industry have to co-exist because Louisiana's future depends on it.

— John Bel Edwards