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Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.