We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a gu…

- Sandra Postel

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the …

- Sandra Postel

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological d…

- Sandra Postel

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

- Sandra Postel

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

- Sandra Postel

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are ste…

- Sandra Postel

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

- Sandra Postel