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quotes[0]='Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers. <i>-Ralph Nader</i>'

quotes[1]='U.S. Geological Survey found VOC levels in excess of federal drinking water criteria in about 6 percent of urban wells and 1.5 percent of rural wells...<i>-U.S. Water News Online</i>'

quotes[2]='Less than 0.5% percent of the Earths water is usable by humans.<i>-usgs.gov</i>'

quotes[3]='The human body is more than 2/3 water.<i></i>'

quotes[4]='Humans need to take in about 2 liters of water a day to be healthy.<i></i>'

quotes[5]='We can live without food for at least a month, but less than a week without water.<i></i>'

quotes[6]='Water covers 3/4 of the surface of the earth.<i></i>'

quotes[7]='The consumer water conservation is best expressed by the four Rs Reduce - Recycle - Reuse - Rethink <i></i>'

quotes[8]='At least 85% of that water can be saved at less than what it would cost to tap into new sources. <i></i>'

quotes[9]='Only 0.02% of ALL fresh water is in ponds, streams, rivers and lakes; <i></i>'

quotes[10]='All the water that will ever be is, right now. <i>-National Geographic, 1993</i>'

quotes[11]='Did you know that general purpose cleaners are estimated to contribute about 8% of total non-vehicular VOC emissions?<i>-GreenSeal.org</i>'

quotes[12]=' people think the only place where there is potential conflict over water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world. <i>-United Nations</i>'

quotes[13]='The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. <i>-World Bank </i>'

quotes[14]='1.1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water, 2.5 billion lack proper sanitation and more than five million people die from waterborne diseases each year <i>- BBC News</i>'

quotes[15]='Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.<i>-United Nations </i>'

quotes[16]='You think we have bad fights over oil. Just wait until we start fighting over water. Its predicted in the Koran.<i>-The Washington Post </i>'

quotes[17]='We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource.<i>- Mikhail Gorbachev </i>'

quotes[18]='The problem with water, is that the shortfalls don not show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. <i>-Audubon </i>'

quotes[19]='We need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way. <i>- Isabel Allende </i>'

quotes[20]='Leaking MTBE from nearly 1,200 underground tank sites threaten the drinking water supply of millions of Californians. MTBE already has reached 48 wells in public water systems serving hundreds of thousands of people. <i>- San Francisco Chronicle </i>'

quotes[21]='The commission has some very serious concerns about the injury to human health from exposures to contaminants in Great Lakes fish," the commissions report says. <i>- Alanna Mitchell </i>'

quotes[22]='The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse.<i>- Marq de Villiers </i>'

quotes[23]='Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that 42 million Americans use groundwater vulnerable to contamination by volatile organic compounds. <i>-U.S. Water News Online</i>'

quotes[24]='Global fresh water supplies are being used up so fast that almost half a billion people already depend on nonrenewable sources, <i>- by CNN.com </i>'

quotes[25]=' 325 gallons of water are consumed per person per day in Las Vegas, possibly more than any other city in the world. <i>- Grist Magazine </i>'

quotes[26]='If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask. <i>-W. Clement Stone</i>'

quotes[27]='Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of Americas water pollution. Animals drugs and hormones are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.<i>- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. </i>'

quotes[28]='The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. <i>- New York Times </i>'

quotes[29]='The world health agency associates 3.4 million deaths each year with inadequate water and sanitation. Over 40 percent of this burden falls on children under five years of age, even though they make up only about 10 percent of the worlds population. <i>- Environment News Service </i>'

quotes[30]='A lot of people just can not believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes, declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water <i>- New York Times </i>'


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