Portal:Water/Quotes

UN-Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, 2010 statement
 * "Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet. It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy; women’s empowerment; food security; sustainable development; and climate change adaptation and mitigation. . .Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened. . . Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change. And the poor continue to suffer first and most from pollution, water shortages and the lack of adequate sanitation. . . More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war."


 * "Water will be more important than oil this century," remarked former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali in 2003.