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“We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.”

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Author:Mostafa Kamal Tolba

“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.”

“The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.”

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Book:The Coming Water Famine

Source: The Coming Water Famine

“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.”

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Author:Mike McAlary

“I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.”

“Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.”

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Book:The Living State: With Observations on Cancer

Source: The Living State: With Observations on Cancer

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

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Dripping water hollows out a stone”

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Author:Ovid

“The solution to our water problems is more rain.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!”

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Book:The wind in the willows

Source: The wind in the willows

“Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.”

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”

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Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.”

Source: The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

“Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment”

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Author:Ian Kiernan

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

“Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

Source: Sail Away

“Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”