Water is the best of all things.
PINDAR (C. 522-C. 438 B.C.), Olympian Odes
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 (1999 - News Conference)
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 for irrigation, drinking and industrial water
Ismail Serageldin, Chairman of the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century- Water Forum, Netherlands, November 30, 1999
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
LORAN EISELY, The Immense Journey, 1957
All the water that will ever be is, right now.
National Geographic, October 1993
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
JAN ERIK VOLD, What All The World Knows, 1970
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929
Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY (1900-1944), Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX (1882-1944), The Madwomen of Chaillot, 1946
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, (1706-1790), Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746
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
JIM WRIGHT, U.S. Representative, The Coming Water Famine, 1966
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.
EDMUND S. MUSKIE, U.S. Senator, speech, 1 March 1966
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.
WILLIAM ASHWORTH, Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982
