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~ Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips. ~
~ When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. ~
~ The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga ~
~ High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Of all our planet's activities--geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind)--no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle. ~
~ If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality. ~
~ In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people...Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption. ~
~ The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. ~
~ Water is personal, water is local, water is regional, water is statewide. Everybody has a different idea, a different approach, a different issue, a different concern. Water is the most personal issue we have. ~
~ Water and its availability and quality will be the main pressures on, and issues for, societies and the environment under climate change. ~
~ Groundwater has been used for domestic and irrigation needs from time immemorial. Yet its nature and occurrence have always possessed a certain mystery because water below the land surface is invisible and relatively inaccessible. The influence of this mystery lingers in some tenets that govern groundwater law. ~
~ In the Western United States, water flows uphill to money. ~
~ We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~
~ The solution to our water problems is more rain. ~
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