Water Crisis Quotes

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  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.

    Our World   Water   Scary  
  • Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.

    Senior   Kids   Winter  
    "Democratic Candidates In Michigan Focus On Flint's Water Crisis". "All things considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 7, 2016.
  • Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

    Two   Water   Earth  
    Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.1, Pluto Press
  • The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

    Two   Issues   Water  
  • I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

  • Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

  • 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.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann
  • There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

    Water   Today   Way  
  • For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.

    Real   Taken   Water  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
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