Competition Quote by Kofi Annan

War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“It’s become a truism that future wars will be fought not over oil, but over water. According to the journal Nature, four-fifths of the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water…

— Ian Goldin

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

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 wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

— Ismail Serageldin

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they…

— Kofi Annan

Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we…

— Margaret Catley-Carlson

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

— Jose Angel Gurria

Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact…

— Peter Maurer

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

— Stephen Kinzer

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