Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

I'll do everything I can to ensure the Clean Water Act is enforced here in Michigan, and I'll work to ensure everyone in Michigan has access to safe, affordable water, regardless of where they live.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

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.

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

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.

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.

People must have water, affordable, necessary water.

Water is the worst thing to privatize. It’s what we need to live.

In my village where I'm from, there's still not running water everywhere. People are still struggling to get clean water.

I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.

You talk to people, and they don't understand our water. They come and turn on a tap and drink clean water, and to them, that's amazing. Millions of people around the world have to carry water miles and miles, and that's all they have. It's hard for fat Americans like myself to even understand that.

Being near a water source can determine lives, livelihoods and prosperity.

The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.

Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it.

Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.

The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.