Looking For A Quote About Water Pollution? (Here Are Our Top 25 Picks)

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

“Filthy water cannot be washed.”

“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”

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

“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

"Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.”

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

"Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!"

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."

"No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people, as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people."

"There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution."

"Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution."

“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”

“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”

“It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?” 

“Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.” 

“Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.”

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."

“I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.” 

“The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.”

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

“How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.”

“The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.”

“The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.”