Josh Fox Quotes

We're talking about a chemical that's out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it's now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.

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

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

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.

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

Flint is to the lead issue what Three Mile Island was to nuclear power. People are stepping back and thinking, 'There still is lead in my home?'

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

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

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

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.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

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.

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.