- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water Quotes
From scarcity to a daily habit, in one word.
These water quotes cover real ground, including a childhood memory of growing up without hot water and a pointed observation about how unevenly water access is rationed between Israel and the West Bank. The Good collection touches on related everyday gratitude.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.
- Rose
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- Nov 07, 2020