Water Shortage Quotes

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late…. The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

Many of the wars this century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water

When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Rain plays no part in the agricultural life of Egypt. It seldom rains. Irrigation from the Nile was thus introduced at an early date. The summer supply of water in that river is insufficient for the adequate irrigation of the cultivated lands at present dependent on it. Egypt is a growing country. The increase in population today is at the rate of 200,000 souls per annum. Egypt is exclusively an agricultural country. There is, therefore, an insistent demand for expansion of cultivation into new areas now lying fallow for want of water. Further control of the river is accordingly now urgently required.

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

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

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

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water

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.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

More than half the world’s people live in countries where water tables are falling.

State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

We'll never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

There is enough water ... but the systems we have in place do not have enough flexibility to move water to the places where it is most needed.

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

Mankind runs a major risk of the shortage of fresh water. Water is a major source of life but could well be a major source of conflict.

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

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

India's water challenges are intractable, messy and perennial.