"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
"325 gallons of water are consumed per person per day in Las Vegas, possibly more than any other city in the world."
- Josh Sevin, "Water, Water Everywhere," Grist Magazine, 20 Dec 99
Mexico has 10 million cases of Water Born Disease recorded annually.
"Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes
- one for peace and one for science."
-John F. Kennedy
"It is predicted that water is about to become 'one of the world's great business opportunities', and that 'it promises to be to the 21st century what oil was
to the 20th."
- Fortune Magazine, May 2000
"The quality of water and the quality of life in all its infinite forms are critical parts of the overall, ongoing health of this planet of
ours...The hardest part of any big project is to begin. We have begun. We are underway... We want to make a difference."
- Sir Peter Blake (1948-2001) last journal entry before being murdered by pirates on the Amazon River
Water is a common chemical substance, that is essential to all known forms of life.
- Wikipedia
"The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
- Ismail Serageldin, World Bank Vice President for Environmental Affairs
"Water is fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a healthy life in human dignity."
- The United Nations Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights
For every 1,000 children born in sub-Saharan Africa, 174 die before their fifth birthday.
-UNDP, Human Development Report 2002
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
- Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
"We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. ... We still have time to do something
before it is too late."
- Mikhail Gorbachev, President of Green Cross International
"We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue."
- Mostafa Tolba of Egypt, former head of the United Nations Environment
Program
"As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are
completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world."
- Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
"Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to
settle close to it... People journey down it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it."
- Mikhail Gorbachev, President of Green Cross International
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow...be like water."
- Bruce Lee
