Edmund S. Muskie Quotes

Availability of water is critical for sanitation projects. Without water, toilets can't be kept clean. Places where there is no drinking water, water for toilets becomes complicated.

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

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

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

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.

There is a liquid more precious than oil – water!

People must have water, affordable, necessary water.

Water is one of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.

Conservation programs are great but when you’ve already done all the conservation and you got no water, how does that help you? It doesn’t. The only thing that could help us now, is water.

There is enough water ... but the systems we have in place do not have enough flexibility to move water to the places where it is most needed.

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

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

I saw from a very young age the value of clean water in communities in Africa. I made a promise to myself that once I reached a time and place in my career where I could do more, I would.

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

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.

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

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.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.

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

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.