Karl Pilkington Quotes

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.

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 you're completely out of your mind.

There is a liquid more precious than oil – water!

No you don’t have the right, just because it’s your land to dig as many wells as you want, and dry up the water for the rest of the farmers downstream..

In 2012, Coke used more water than close to a quarter of the world’s population..

Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.

Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.

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

Luckily, water, though finite, is infinitely renewable.

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

I'm so sick of the water.

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

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.

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

The poor people drink water which is very good and very common in this country.

Mankind runs a major risk of the shortage of fresh water. Water is a major source of life but could well be a major source of conflict.

... a victim of the use of water as a beverage.

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

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late…. The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.