Better Quote by Jose Angel Gurria

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

— Maude Barlow

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

— Sandra Postel

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

Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan,…

— Charles C. Mann

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

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

“Today's water arguments reflect a growing unease about how to proceed when old certainties are being pushed aside and new options seem limited or…

— Alex Prud'Homme

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

— Marcus Samuelsson

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

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Kofi Annan