Water Access Quotes

We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.

Half the world’s people fail to receive the level of water services available in many of the cities of ancient Greece and Rome

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

People must have water, affordable, necessary water.

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.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water.

No water—no jobs.

Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.

We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.

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

I have a house with its own dock and I can take my boat out when I want.

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

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.

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.