In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared March 22 as World Day for Water (also known as World Water Day). This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"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."
-- William Ashworth
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
-- W.H. Auden
Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
-- Maude Barlow
"I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns."
-- Ezra Taft Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1955
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
-- David Brower
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
-- Jacques Cousteau
"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
-- Rachel Carson
"UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future — a future in which the basic needs for a child’s survival: food, clean water and simple health care — are guaranteed."
-- Jane Curtin
"Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights."
-- Paul Farmer
"When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water"
-- Benjamin Franklin
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
"Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?"
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”
-- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
"So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime."
~ Jay-Z
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.
~ Robert Kennedy, Jr.
"Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water."
-- Paolo Lugari (founder of the Gaviotas Community in Colombia
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