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  • I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water. -- Joyce Giraud
  • Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms -- Nicholas Stern
  • While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water. -- Dalai Lama
  • Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty- the realities of access to water and food- which create the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources and that is going to accelerate in the future. -- Rajiv Shah
  • More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. -- David Suzuki
  • There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. -- Michael Moore
  • Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. -- Peter Diamandis
  • Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. -- Gelila Bekele
  • The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. -- Marc Andreessen
  • Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area. -- Marcus Samuelsson
  • It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity. -- Rusty Schweickart
  • As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. -- Moshe Sharett
  • True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them. -- George Aiken
  • Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • 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
  • He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right. -- Kofi Annan
  • [Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. -- Matt Damon
  • Something is very, very wrong when people donĂ‚?t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. -- Vandana Shiva
  • The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access -- Timothy Keller
  • 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
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