Trent Franks Quotes

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

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

Luckily, water, though finite, is infinitely renewable.

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

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.

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.

There is a liquid more precious than oil – water!

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

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

I'm very happy about 'Last Call At The Oasis.' I hope it's a wake up call... we caused the problem, but we can be the solution.

Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure that we treat water the way it deserves.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

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

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

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.'

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.