Stacey Dooley Quotes

According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.

We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

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.

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

It'll go away only if we make it go away—by not using 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.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

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

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

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

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

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.

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.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

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.

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.

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.