Water Quality Quotes

• 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 Muskie

  Dream, Rivers, Water

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• I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Believe, Water, Storm

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• Los ganaderos necesitan agua limpia para su ganado, los agricultores la necesitan para sus cultivos, todos los empresarios la necesitan para seguir en activo y todos los seres vivos la necesitan para vivir... La ley debe ser clara para proteger la calidad del agua y los derechos de los propietarios.

  Mark Udall

  Empresa, Derechos, Derecho

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• 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. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.

  Richard Bangs

  Dream, Rain, Elephants

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• In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.

  Bob Frank

  Aire, Agua, Objetivo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Japan, Wind, Water

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• Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

  Tim Jackson

  Commodity Prices, Rights, Fishing

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• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• Quizá debamos optar por el sentido común de proteger estas especies, pero seguir extrayendo productos madereros que todos utilizamos y disfrutamos. Tenemos que ser capaces de hacer ambas cosas: proteger la calidad del agua y las especies y talar árboles.

  John Hancock

  Fall, Common Sense, Water

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• A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.

  Mark Z. Jacobson

  Air, Wind, Water

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• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

  James Fallows

  Air, Safety, Water

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