Hugh Laurie Quotes

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

No water—no jobs.

In our wildest dreams we never thought water would be a zero-sum game.

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

I'm so sick of the water.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

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.

As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California's water. Scientists say the state is at its driest point in half a millennium and as any Californians will tell you, it is not just their problem, it's everyone's problem.

I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

Without rain, there is no life.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

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.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

I'm working on a film called 'Bonnie.' Bonnie means water. It's in English, and it's dealing with a future world in a megacity - which is what the U.N. says we're going to be - but in this megacity, a city that runs out of water.

What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

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.

Pray for rain!

At about 9.5 billion people, the world will run out of fresh water.

Many of the wars this century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water

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.

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.