“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.” ChildrenImportantCultureWaterBornRichEnvironmentRainRiversEnvironmentalDrinking WaterDrink WaterWater ResourcesRivers And WaterWater FountainWorld Water DayRain Water Book:Nor any drop to drink Source: Nor any drop to drink
“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.” WayMightCultureWaterCitiesRussiaAccuracyContainingGreat CitiesCholeraTyphoid Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.” PeopleHeartCountryDiesCultureLeftWaterCitiesBloodWindTasksOur CountryRuinsBelovedRisingNeglectFiercePerilAbandonmentSymphonyUtterancePoignantChroniclesSorrowfulImpassioned Author:Carolyn Forche
“Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?” AbleCultureWaterImagineNew Cultures Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensTodayCultureCoursesWaterNaturalDecisionResultsCenturySeriousActivityResourcesRiversThreatEnvironmentalProsperityPrimariesExposedContinentsIndispensableLinkedNatural ResourcesMississippi Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.” ThinkingWellsCountryHomeSchoolCultureGirlWaterWorstEducatedDevelopingMealsTreatmentVillagePreparingFarmingBack And ForthChoresDeveloping CountriesCountry Girl Author:Laura Bush