Clean Water Quotes - Page 2

• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  Naveen Jain

  Successful, Moon, Skills

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• Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Deserve Love, Water, Cards

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think.

  Michelle Singletary

  Blessing, Thinking, Roof Over Your Head

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• My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Water, Suggestions

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

  Paul Farmer

  Real, Rights, Sick

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• We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Water, Energy, Most Amazing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

  Jay Inslee

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• It's better for the United States and better for the world to have the U.S. be energy independent. Have us have clean air and clean water and protect the environment for future generations of Americans. All of that makes sense.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Independent, Water, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Kyoto

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Rain, Dirty, Sky

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• All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

  John Salazar

  Water, Community, Cost

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• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  Mark Udall

  Business, Rights, Law

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• As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Drinking, Responsibility, Lakes

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• Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Water, Challenges

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

  Frances Beinecke

  Believe, Thinking, Air

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• In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.

  Brooke Fraser

  Mean, Kids, Water

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.

  Avril Lavigne

  Mean, Water, People

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

  Erin Brockovich

  Water, Deterioration, Clean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Rural Areas, Granted

  "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Food, Pride

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• Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

  Anita Roddick

  War, Army, Oil

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• We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

  Paul Watson

  Average, Years, Cities

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Children, War

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• If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.

  Steven Chu

  Technology, Thinking, Air

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