“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people...And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.”
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Water has become a highly precious resource. There are some places where a barrel of water costs more than a barrel of oil.
- Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Minister of Canada
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced..
- Jim Wright, U.S. Representative
All the water that will ever be is, right now.
- National Geographic
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
- Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them.
- Ismail Serageldin, Chairman of the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century
Water has become a highly precious resource. There are some places where a barrel of water costs more than a barrel of oil.