Sara Gilbert Quotes

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.

Ohioans need peace of mind that the water coming out of their tap is safe. It's as simple as that.

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

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

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

My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

For me, being green means cleaning up the water. Water is the key. Start with water. You can't ignore the fact that that nearly 80% of US waterways are potentially poisoned - benzene, solvents, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals.

I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.

Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

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.

Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.

Saying drinking water is 'safe' without any supporting documentation is wrong. Resting on the comfort that the DHEC and the USEPA are there to give you cover is the same mistake the City of Flint made.

There was pressure on the EPA to come out with a drinking water guideline, which it did in 2016. And when that guideline came out, it spurred even more testing across the country, including by the Department of Defense.

We didn't have running water. We had to get water from wells, and there was a stint where I lived with my grandma where we had to get water, bring it over to the house. You had to boil the water because you never knew what parasites were in the water.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

New York has the best tap water.

There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

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.

In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.