Bureaucrats Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi

As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California's water. Scientists say the state is at its…

— Chris Hayes

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

— Ed Begley, Jr

With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a…

— Marc Levine

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

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

— Chris Hayes

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

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

— Rohini Nilekani

Look, I'm not a water expert. I'm not a scientist. But I've been to Flint. I've seen what's happening. We have a third-world situation…

— Rasheed Wallace

Californians want to have clean air, clean water - not like the Trump Administration is trying to do with its rollback of environmental regulations,…

— Ted Lieu

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies.…

— Dee Rees

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

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management…

— Sandra Postel