Quotes About Polluted Water

#1. In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

Imran Khan

#2. Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Ma Jun

#3. Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act ...

Ai Weiwei

#4. Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

Stella Young

#5. He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Holly Black

#6. What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

Greg MacGillivray

#7. One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

Alber Elbaz

#8. It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

Charles Duhigg

#9. What we do going forward defines who we are. Juliette, Pg. 397

Hugh Howey

#10. Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

Carol Browner

#11. I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

Princess Diana

#12. What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.

Erin Brockovich

#13. It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

Rick Atkinson

#14. I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

Josh Beckett

#15. There were many ways to extract information if you have more time? but if you were in a rush, they recommended flaying, crushing digits, or electrocuting the genitalia.(Say what you will about the Russians, they certainly didn't beat around the bush.)

B. Justin Shier

#16. For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn't make for a good movie.

William R. Forstchen

#17. God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.

Mark Driscoll

#18. Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Radhanath Swami

#19. The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

James Fallows

#20. The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Harri Holkeri

#21. Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#22. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Pauline Phillips

#23. Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

Confucius

#24. We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans
convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

Saul Bellow

#25. Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.

Saul Bellow

#26. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

Ismail Serageldin

#27. I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

Ted Danson