Manu Quotes

The Clintons are walking around on poo. But it’s very clean poo.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people, as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.' I dedicate myself to this movement and will invite nine other leading Indians to join me in the 'Clean India' campaign.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.

People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

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

I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have.