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WATER
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X 11 PDF to print) "Water
helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility
to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents
passed on to their children."
-- M. Meyer
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"...Good luck
and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall
in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs
and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling
rivers."
-- John Muir
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Water
is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because
water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government
polluters, use it as their private sewers.
-- Ralph
Nader, 1971 |  |
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War
over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable...
Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension,
of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies
have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop
if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.
-- Queen
Noor of Jordan | "What
may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot
work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on
gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest,
on poisoning its pure air, on defecating copiously in its pure water... the single
most important indicator of environmental decline is the extent to which the damage
done is reversible. The most heinous ecological crime of all is for any one generation
so seriously to assault the web of life that the damage done is literally irreversible
for every generation that follows."
~ Jonathon Porritt
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"For
many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond
this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for
the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports."
~ Sandra Postel
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"Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past."
~ Sandra
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