Parris Glendening Quotes

More than half the world’s people live in countries where water tables are falling.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

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

No water—no jobs.

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

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.

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

It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.

I'm so sick of the water.

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.

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

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.

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.

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

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.