“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.

- Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Minister of Canada