Clean Water Quotes

• Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.

  Barack Obama

  Air, Should Have, Water

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Water Of Life, Essence, People

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• For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Would Be, Clean

  "Eat Out, Drink Up and Save Lives" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Children, Commitment, Water

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• Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

  Bud Shuster

  Country, Memorable, Clean Drinking Water

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• We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, Water, Risk

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Water, Television

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• More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

  David Suzuki

  People, Water, Adequate

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• So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

  Jay-Z

  People, Water, Crime

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• I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

  Chris Tucker

  Water, Imagine, Clean

  "Comedian Chris Tucker". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 7, 2005.

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• Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

  Dr. Seuss

  Air, Giving, Water

  The Lorax (1971)

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• 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.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Issues, Perfect

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• Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Drinking, Water, Tissues

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• Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Space, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

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• It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.

  Bill Nye

  Dream, People, Water

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  Edmund Muskie

  Ocean, Moving, Lakes

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• You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

  Michael Hudson

  Oil, Water, Choices

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

  Gelila Bekele

  School, Rights, Water

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• Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

  James Wright

  Hands, Practice, Hygiene

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ocean, Sunset, Mean

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• This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

  Bill Frist

  Water, Borders, Needs

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• There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Air, Water

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• Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Water, Lasts

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• My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

  Erin Brockovich

  Mom, Dad, Land

  Source: www.pbs.org

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