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We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

— Rose George

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

— David Suzuki

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

— Ma Jun

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

— Enda Kenny

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

— Dean Kamen

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

— Michael Moore

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

— Frances Beinecke

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.

— Eric Burdon

We can create new ways to create clean water.

— Craig Venter

✗Opposing Perspectives

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

— Jamais Cascio