“It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its future water, is deteriorating rapidly because of strip mining, because of bad farming, because of industrial and agricultural pollutants, because of urban sewage. It is deteriorating, that is to say, because almost nobody cares, or cares to know, where water comes from, so long as it keeps coming.” KnowsLongStatesFactsCareWaterDependsRiversEnvironmentalUrbanFarmingMiningKentuckyNobody CaresDeterioratingSewage Author:Wendell Berry
“Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.” DiesWaterResultsSituationGrowingHugeConcernEnvironmentalFishesRegionsTrendsPollutionDecayUrbanOxygenDischargeNutrientsFertilizerCoastalSewage Book:Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
“Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.” UseEasyWaterDecisionFireCarefulOpeningUrbanDroughtDeliberation Author:Ben Nelson
“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