1. Quotes on Water
SUNIL KOHLI, IDAS JS&FA, MOWR
1) i"When you see clouds gathering, prepare to catch rainwater."
2) “When one man drinks while another can only watch, Doomsday follows.”
3) "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to
where it was.”
4) "The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the
land."
5) "Water is personal, water is local, water is regional, water is
statewide. Everybody has a different idea, a different approach, a
different issue, and a different concern. Water is the most personal
issue we have."
6) "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain
there would be no life."
7) "The only books that separate ground water and surface water are our law
books."
8) "Water and its availability and quality will be the main pressures on,
and issues for, societies and the environment under climate change."
9) "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
10) "The solution to our water problems is more rain."
11) "Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation and
our well-being."
12) "Water is the only substance on earth that is naturally present in
three different forms - as a liquid, a solid (ice) and as a gas (water
vapor)."
13) "Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At
their most elemental, they are about survival."
14) "There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend
upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources."
15) "You could write the story of man's growth in terms of his epic
concerns with water."
16) "Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die."
17) "We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and
sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise
provisions for future days."
18) "There has been a lot said about the sacredness of our land which is
our body; and the values of our culture which is our soul; but water is
the blood of our tribes, and if its life-giving flow is stopped, or it
is polluted, all else will die and the many thousands of years of our
communal existence will come to an end."
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2. 19) "Till taught by pain, men really know not what good water is worth."
20) "Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his
many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil
and the fact that it rains."
21) " Water has become one of our major national concerns."
22) "Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and
water."
23) "Water is the most basic of all resources. Civilizations grew or
withered depending on its availability."
24) "If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water
from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of
humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific
accomplishments." -
25) "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
26) "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”
27) "Water should not be judged by its history, but by its quality"
28) "A waster of water is a waster of better."
29) "Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights
of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of
the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children."
30) "When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water."
31) "Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have
never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but
we do not respect it."
32) "Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls."
33) "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
34) "By means of water, we give life to everything."
35) "It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water
deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right."
36) "Water links us to our neighbor in a way more profound and complex
than any other."
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