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Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.

—Horace, 35 BC

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

—Ethiopian proverb

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

What water gives, water takes away.

—Portuguese proverb

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

—Margaret Atwood, 2005