“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.” WayFirstsWellsI CanHelpingSongWaterCan DoSimpleAreasStartingRapHelpfulRap Song Author:Jay-Z
“We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.” WaterMinesLimitsAreasArmySouthPossessionOilBordersEnterpriseRapidsInvasionTimberWater Power Book:The Imperialist Source: The Imperialist
“The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.” WantHouseWaterLandIndustryAreasStormTreatmentShoppingSugarAgricultureShopping Centers Author:Charles Lee
“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.” NeedsWaterNaturalPracticeGenerationsCitizensResourcesAdvantageAreasForestsSoilWildlifeNatural ResourcesThis GenerationObservantInspirational Beauty Author:Walt Disney
“The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.” NeedsProblemWaterAreasPerceiveEfficiencyExpertise Author:Will Rogers
“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.” WorldShouldMomentsWaterDoubtEnvironmentFailingLandMankindBalanceAreasResponsibleRegardFaultsProtectionIceCanadaPeculiarArtificialPollutionAdequateEcologicalLiableArcticDeteriorationEcological Balance Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.” IfsWaterResourcesAreasCleanAccessHardestGrantedSimplestClean WaterRural AreasThings We Take For Granted Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.” IfsBodyEarthWaterForeverMaterialsMountainOceanAreasWeakOppositesAccountsHotWideSurfaceNineInvisibleIceChainsSandCentsLoadVolumeMudNinetyLoadedRemovalDepositsNinety NineUntouchablesLavaOcean Water Author:Reginald Aldworth Daly
“When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.” PeopleThinkingKindLongWaterInternetAreasConnectionsPlantHeavyConnectedCriticalInfrastructureSuppliesCyberPower PlantsInternet ConnectionCyber Attacks Author:Edward Snowden
“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.” PeopleWellsStillsTwoEndsSometimesBodyEarthWaterWalksCommonGreaterDiseaseNormalSixPercentAreasDistanceEnvironmentalSurfaceEastChainsPondsParasitesStewCholeraEast AfricaTyphoidDysentery Author:Marq de Villiers
“Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.” MadeStatesWaterUnitedNumbersUnited StatesProgressSafeAreasRiversMajorityEnvironmentalBillionsMilesStreamsLakesFishingPoundsSwimmingCleaningCleaning UpCoastal Author:Carol Browner
“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.” MenMadeEarthFormWaterAirFlowerBedAreasEnvironmentalDesertOur TimeValleysPollutionDwellingDisturbedHesitationDevastatedDegradingHabitatIndustrializationDwelling Place Author:Pope John Paul II
“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.” MayProblemOpportunityWaterLevelsAttentionTalkingSeaOceanAreasObviousWarmIceIslandsRisingVillainFloodHurricanesMeltingLanesLouisianaArcticKatrinaNew OpportunityShippingHurricane KatrinaCoastal Author:Mark Powell
“You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.” PeopleIfsNextHouseWaterAreasAverageRestaurantsUrbanSeafoodSteakUrban AreasSteak House Author:Tilman J Fertitta
“Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.” ChildrenProblemWaterPerfectPovertyIssuesAreasCrisisCleanHungerStormJust OneTollsClean WaterDisadvantagedPerfect StormWater Crisis Author:Matt Damon
“I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.” EnergyWaterChallengesMy OwnCompanySuccessfulFocusMoonSkillsAreasEntrepreneurCleanSolveMy TimeHealthcareFundingClean WaterSuccessful Company Author:Naveen Jain
“Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.” WaterAirOffersResearchAreasDistanceResponseSubstancePollutionInitialsEcologicalCircuitsViralContamination Book:Open Sky Source: Open Sky
“Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.” StillsWholeWaterChallengesLinesNumbersFeetAmountCoupleAreasRiversBottomSignificantHistoricBottom LineMississippiMississippi RiverEvacuation Author:Jay Nixon
“So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.” PeopleTwoHardAmericaLawWaterNumbersColdAmountSafeAreasRiversVariousWarmRescueRule Of LawNorth America Author:Jay Nixon
“Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.” WellsPersonsUnderstandingWaterLosesInterestingBreakPersonalityEnlightenmentReflectionAreasBuddhistAcquireCommentaryReferencing Author:Brad Warner
“There's a reason why Jules Verne chose the place where the glacier was, where we start to descend into the center of the earth. That area specifically has magical powers and people come to this place from all over the world. I actually think that's true of all Iceland. I think it's so special, apart from the water and air being so clean.” PeopleThinkingWorldReasonEarthWaterAirSpecialAreasCleanReason WhyGlaciersIceland Author:Anita Briem
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.” PeopleCountryWould BeMovingLyingWaterNumbersAcceptingMillionsHeardWillingLowsHundredAreasOver YouSuggestionsLarge Numbers Author:Walter Munk
“When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.” WellsMeanWaterPercentResourcesAreasGoldIncludingFishesOilEastRussiaLocalsForestsGasTerritoryEasternTinOil And GasSiberia Author:Vladimir Putin
“I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a government function, I talk about government related topics. If I attend a Railway's function I talk about railways, if water then water, if water bodies, then water bodies. My focus is on governance.” IfsDifferentBodyGovernmentPoliticalWaterFocusHeardAreasFunctionRelatedCommentTopicsGovernanceRailway Author:Narendra Modi
“War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.” IfsYearsHumansHas BeensWarWould BeAbleWaterRightsSourceAuthorityAreasUltimateAbuseClimateEnvironmentalHuman RightsTraditionalTensionControlledSuppliesObscenityErosion Author:Queen Noor of Jordan