Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.
Interpretation
Water is essential for addressing issues of poverty and economic development.
In her quote, Sunita Narain highlights the vital role that water plays in overcoming poverty and encouraging growth. Access to clean water is not only a fundamental human right but also a critical resource that enables communities to thrive, improve health, promote agriculture, and sustain economic activities, thereby tackling the dual challenges of poverty alleviation and growth simultaneously.
In practice
During a seminar on sustainable development, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of water.
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .
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