Water is a prerequisite for the existence of life. Human beings, animals, and plants cannot survive without water and the human body itself is mostly water. We can go without food for even 30 days or more, but we cannot go without water even for a few days.
Water is the most critical limiting factor for many aspects of life such as economic growth, environmental stability, biodiversity conservation, food security, and health care. In most cases of water use, there is no other substitute. In the case of energy, one source can often replace another, but water, as a resource, is mostly irreplaceable.
We know that 97% of the world’s water is in the ocean, too salty to drink. Of the remaining 3%, two-thirds are locked up in relatively inaccessible icecaps and glaciers. Again half of this amount is ground water and most of it lies too far underground.
We need water for personal use, agriculture, and industries. At home, water is necessary for drinking, cooking food, washing, cleaning, toilet use, and gardening. Human beings use about 54% of all accessible freshwater supplies in the world. By 2025, this share will increase to 70%. This will have serious implications for all other forms of life, including plants.
It is significant that domestic consumption accounts for only 8% and yet there is worldwide scarcity of drinking water. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world’s population, live in areas of water scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could live under water stress.
To avoid a water crisis and to ensure the availability of fresh water for the next generation, there is a need for some actions regarding water conservation.
Below I have provided 30 effective, unique and motivational quotes on water conservation in order to inspire you to take some necessary steps.
You can use such quotes to encourage common people in your society or community.
Best Quotes on Water Conservation
- “Water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the alleviation of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human health and well-being.” - United Nations
- “Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children’s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.” - Luna Leopold.
- “Water is life and clean water means health.” - Audrey Hepburn
- “A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” - Lucy Larcom
- “Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink? - Mikhail Gorbachev
- “Water water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” Conserve water - Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
- “ When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.” - Benjamin Franklin
- “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” - W.H.Auden
- “Caring for water is caring for us all.” - The Dharma Trails
- “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” - Jacques Cousteau
- “A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” - Laura Gilpin
- “Pure water is the World’s First and Foremost Medicine.” - Slovakian Proverb
- “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” - Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “Bright future begins with clean water” - The Water Project
- “Water links us to our neighbour in a way more profound and complex than any other.” - John Thorson
- “A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Water crisis is not a natural crisis. This is a man-made crisis.” - Ernie Barnett
- “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” - Stewart Udal
- “All the water that will ever be is, right now.” - National Geographic
- “ Water is the driving force of all nature.” - Leonardo Da Vincci
- “Water used to be fresh, pure, and Drinkable, Now the water has Lots of Focal Matter and Bacteris.” - Claudina Sierra
- “Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.” - Donald Worster
- “The fact of the matter is our homes are on the frontline when it comes to protecting and conserving our critical water resources - more than that, they are also key to protecting our health.” - Philippe Cousteau Jr.
- “The earth, The air, the land, and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children. So we have to hand to them at least as it was handed over to us.” - Gandhi
- “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.” - Leonardo da Vinci
- “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” - Lao Tzu
- “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” - Loren Eiseley
- “No water. No Life. No Blue. No Green” - Sylvia Earle
- “Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner, and refresher of the world.” - Charles Mackay
- “Always be like water Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along with the wind which touches it ‘Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” - Crystal Middlemas
- “There are a number of ways to save water. And they all start with you.” - Anonymous
- “The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.” - Ismail Serageldin
