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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. -- Aeschylus
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. -- Bjorn Lomborg
My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water. -- Bella Thorne
Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant. -- Charles Duhigg
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. -- Bjorn Lomborg
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water. -- Bryan Cranston
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else. -- Josh Fox
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere. -- Charles Duhigg
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. -- Mark Twain
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing. -- Hilary Swank
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. -- Michael Moore
At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. -- Evan Sayet
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. -- Petra Nemcova
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment. -- Charles Duhigg
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? -- Bill Hicks
Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people. -- Doug Stanhope
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. -- David Suzuki
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues. -- Kevin R. Stone
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist -- Winona LaDuke
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care. -- Kofi Annan
If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment -- Ian Kiernan
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. -- Stephanie Herseth
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I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water. -- Bill Gates
Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water. -- Jewel
Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. -- Ambrose Bierce
Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters. -- Natasha Trethewey
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it. -- Nathaniel Rich
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks. -- Charles Duhigg
I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now. -- Sarah Vowell
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not. -- Sandra Steingraber
Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in the mind may not always be possible at first, so in the beginning, practice japa by moving the lips incessantly-like a fish drinking water. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little! -- Charles M. Schulz
Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks. -- Charles Duhigg
If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. -- Mark Boyle
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. -- Peter Singer
I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I'm done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It's so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things. -- Alison Sweeney
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE. -- Helene D. Gayle
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom. -- Mandy Moore
The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas. -- Alex Epstein
Which are you drinking? The water or the wave? -- John Fowles
Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors. -- Maddox
Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished. -- America Ferrera
Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases. -- Sara Sheridan
The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed, -- Carol Browner
We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. -- George Bird Grinnell
I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water. -- Jennie Garth
Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. -- Bob Hope
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty. -- Shunryu Suzuki
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. -- Sun Tzu
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. -- Bruce Friedrich
In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter" -- Slug
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key. -- Warren Cuccurullo
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves. -- Paul-Emile Victor
Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.' -- Bill Maher
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. -- Henry David Thoreau
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. -- Bill Rodgers
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. -- Cate Blanchett
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. -- Tia Mowry
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. -- Simon Van Booy
At parties, everyone always thinks I'm drinking, but actually I rarely drink. I live on energy drinks, basically. I love vitamin water. -- Paris Hilton
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. -- Carl Sandburg
Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying. -- Milan Kundera
I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. -- Petra Nemcova
Something is very, very wrong when people donÂ?t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. -- Vandana Shiva
Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean. -- Josh Fox
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. -- John Holdren
Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water. -- Natalie Goldberg
Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me. -- J. M. Coetzee
Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it. -- Adriana Lima
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
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you. -- Michael Moriarty
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why. -- Andrew Luck
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water. -- Charles Duhigg
We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water. -- Shirin Ebadi
Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all. -- George Singleton
[Marco] Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. I've never seen - he's drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him and the water. -- Donald Trump
My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products. -- Hailey Rhode Baldwin
I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins. -- Rita Dove
Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water. -- Robert Koch
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. -- Stephanie Herseth

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