Memperingati Hari Air Sedunia

Hari ini, 22 Maret, adalah hari air sedunia.

Aku share beberapa quotes tentang air, untuk mengingatkan kita, betapa air adalah salah satu ciptaan Tuhan yang patut kita sukuri keberadaannya dan patut kita jaga pula kelestariannya.

"Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it."
-- William Ashworth

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
-- W.H. Auden

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
-- Maude Barlow

"The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each."
-- James Fennimore Cooper

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
-- Jacques Cousteau

Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.
-- The 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

"When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water"
-- Benjamin Franklin

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev

“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”
-- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children."
-- M. Meyer

"Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past."
-- Sandra Postel

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
-- Ismail Serageldin, World Bank Vice President for Environmental Affairs

"Water is the most basic of all resources. Civilizations grew or withered depending on its availability."
-- Dr. Nathan W. Snyder

"Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine.

We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.
-- Mostafa Tolba, former head of the United Nations Environment Program

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
-- Stewart Udall