Clean Water Quotes

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

“[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible, violent things. That's at the bottom of it. It's just a question of prioritizing. The funds are there."

(The Power of One: Belief.net Interview; July 2005)”
― Susan Sarandon

“Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.”
― Thomas M. Kostigen, You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet

“If we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways. When will the public become sufficiently aware of the facts to demand such action?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“if every individual sweeps in front of their house, the community will be clean. If the community is clean; our coastal ecosystems (rivers, lagoons, wetlands etc) shall be clear clean waters.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Water is pristine (I cry),
when transparent it remains,
clean it falls right off the sky,
soft or heavy (with my pain).

Soft it falls,
when the drops are small,
heavy fall the larger balls -
numerous the drops that fall…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...