Water
"Water is vital for LIFE! The availability of clean, fresh water is one of the most important issues on the international agenda. An estimated 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.5 billion people have no access to proper sanitation. More than five million people die each year from water-related diseases – ten times the number killed in wars, on average, each year. Even where water supplies are plentiful, they are increasingly at risk from pollution and rising demand." – Kofi Annan
"To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature."
– Masaru Emoto"Every fifteen seconds a child dies somewhere in the world because of a
water-related illness."
– UN Classroom Resource Guide on Water"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
– Leonardo da Vinci"Two-thirds of the water used in an average U.S. home is used in the bathroom. It takes 2 gallons to brush your teeth, 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet, and 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower." – Water Facts
"No single measure would do more to reduce disease and save lives in the developing world than bringing safe water and adequate sanitation to all."
– Kofi Annan"Water use is growing twice as fast as population, but there is no more water today than there ever has been. Who will control this source of life?" – Yes! (Winter 2004)
"Fish, amphibian and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal - each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water. This is our inheritance." – Rachel Carson - The Sea Around Us (1951)
"And let this be the law; if anyone intentionally pollutes the water of another; whether the water of a spring, or collected in reservoirs, either by poisonous substances, or by digging, or by theft, let the injured party bring the cause before the warden of the city." – Plato, Laws, c. 400 BC
You, Lord, are my shepherd.
I will never be in need.
You let me rest in fields of green grass.
You lead me to streams of peaceful water,
and You refresh my life.
– Psalm 23:1-3
Websites:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/601/water-and-development
(Water and Development)http://www.nrdc.org/water/default.asp
(Water issues)http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/emerging/en/
(World Health Organization on water)http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Environment/Water/
(Water Topics)http://www.africanwater.org/religion.htm
(Importance of Water in the World Religions)
