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To add a new quote:
(1) Insert a new blank line just *after* the line "var quotes=new Array()", below.
(2) Add a line of code where you inserted the blank line. See below for required format for the code.
(3) Save this file on the server.

The general format of a quote is...

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is essential for all the world\'s life.<br/> --World Bank Institute'

Each quote (line of code) *must* follow these rules:
* If you use apostrophes inside your quote, each apostrophe *must* have a backslash (\) in front of it; e.g., world\'s
* Each line of code (quote) *must* be on one line. Line breaks will not work.
* You can use an HTML line break (<br>) within the quote, but it must not be accompanied by a line break in the code.
* Be sure to open and close the quotes using a single quotation mark.

To remove a quote from the rotation, either:
* Delete the line of code, or
* Comment out the line of code, as shown below.
* Re-save this file on the server. */

/* quotes[quotes.length] = 'Blah blah. --This line of code is ignored.' */

/*
To add a quote, copy and paste from an existing quote, and change the quote wording.
It doesn't matter where the new quote is placed, but the end would be easiest.
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var quotes=new Array()

quotes[quotes.length] = 'No water resources program is of greater long-range importance than our efforts to convert water from the world’s greatest and cheapest natural resources - our oceans - into water fit for our homes and industry. Such a breakthrough would end bitter struggles between neighbors, states and nations.<br/><i>- John F. Kennedy, at a dedication ceremony for a desalination plant in Freeport, Texas, June 21, 1961</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water has no conscience and no shame<br/> <i>- Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, "Water," The T. E. Lawrence Poems (1982)</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Nothing is more useful than water; but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.<br/> <i>- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Save for a few island-states, nearly every nation on the globe shares its water resources with one or more countries. Thus, it is clear why the management, regulation and conservation of transboundary water resources have become increasingly important subjects of international law and policy. This is evident from both an economic as well as an environmental perspective.<br/> <i>- Gabriel Eckstein</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is essential for all dimensions of life.  Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty percent of the world\'s population, are already facing water shortages, while by year 2020 the world\'s population will double. The costs of water infrastructure have risen dramatically. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Ecosystems are being destroyed, sometimes permanently. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of children each year.<br/> <i>- World Bank Institute WATER POLICY REFORM PROGRAM  - Nov. 1999</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is the best of all things.<br/> <i>- Pindar (522-438 B.C.), Olympian Odes</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water has become a highly precious resource. There are some places where a barrel of water costs more than a barrel of oil.<br/> <i>- Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Minister of Canada (1999 - News Conference)</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'More than one-half of the world\'s major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.<br/> <i>- Ismail Serageldin, Chairman of the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century - Water Forum, Netherlands, November 30, 1999</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.<br/> <i>- Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1957</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'All the water that will ever be is, right now.<br/> <i>- National Geographic, October 1993</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.<br/> <i>- An Erik Vold, What All The World Knows, 1970</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.<br/><i>- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.<br/> <i>- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.<br/><i>- Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), The Madwomen of Chaillot, 1946</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.<br/><i>- Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), Poor Richard\'s Almanac, 1746</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga. <br/><i>- Jim Wright, U.S. Representative, The Coming Water Famine, 1966</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.<br/><i>- Edmund S. Muskie, U.S. Senator, speech, 1 March 1966</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.<br/><i>- William Ashworth, Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Of all our planet\'s activities--geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind)--no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.<br/><i>- Richard Bangs & Christian Kallen, Rivergods, 1985</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Between earth and earth\'s atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.<br/><i>- Linda Hogan, Northern Lights, Autumn 1990</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Filthy water cannot be washed.<br/><i>- West African Proverb</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality.<br/><i>- William C. Clark, speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people...Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption.<br/><i>- Elliot A. Norse, in R.J. Hoage, ed., Animal Extinctions, 1985</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.<br/><i>- John F. Kennedy</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.<br/><i>- Excerpt from the Tao Te Ching, chapter 8</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Many estuaries produce more harvestable human food per acre than the best midwestern farmland.<br/><i>- Stanley A. Cain, testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Merchant Marine and Fisheries subcommittee, March 1967</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'The estuary is the point where man, the sea--his immemorial ally and adversary-and the land meet and challenge each other.<br/><i>- U.S. Dept of Interior, National Estuarine Pollution Study, November 1969</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.<br/><i>- C.G.D. Roberts, Adrift in America, 1891</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'You could write the story of man\'s growth in terms of his epic concerns with water.<br/><i>- Bernard Frank</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.<br/><i>- Charles W. Beebe (1877-1962), Log of the Sun, 1906</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Only those people that have directly experienced the wetlands that line the shore...can appreciate their mystic qualities. The beauty of rising mists at dusk, the ebb and flow of the tides, the merging of fresh and salt waters... <br/><i>- Governor\'s Task Force on Marine and Costal Affairs, "Delaware: Wetlands," 1972</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.<br/><i>- Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), \"The Marshes of Glynn,\" 1878</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Wetlands have a poor public image.... Yet they are among the earth\'s greatest natural assets... mankind\'s waterlogged wealth.<br/><i>- Edward Maltby Waterlogged Wealth, 1986</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;<br/>Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.<br/><i>- Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'The water understands Civilization well,<br/>It wets my foot, but prettily, It chills my life, but wittily,<br/>It is not disconcerted, It is not broken-hearted,<br/>Well used, it decketh joy, Adorneth, doubleth joy,<br/>Ill used, it will destroy, In perfect time and measure,<br/>With a face of golden pleasure Elegantly destroy.<br/><i>- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Water, 1883</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'It\'s very difficult to get people interested in water as a global or even regional issue, but if you bring it down to the kitchen sink, we all do get the general picture.<br/><i>- Diane Raines Ward, Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst, 2002</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still; is the cause at times of life or death, or increase or privation, nourishes at times and at others does the contrary; at times has a tang, at times is without savor, sometimes submerging the valleys with great floods. In time and with water, everything changes.<br/><i>- Leonardo da Vinci</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.<br/><i>- W.H. Auden</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.<br/><i>- Rachel Carson</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water is life\'s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.<br/><i>- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'And you, vast sea, sleepless mother,<br/>Who alone are peace and freedom to the river and the stream,<br/>Only another winding will this stream make, only another murmer in this glade,<br/>And then shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.<br/><i>- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet 1923</i>'

quotes[quotes.length] = 'Water: "the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter and that when pure is an odorless, tasteless, very slightly compressible liquid oxide of hydrogen H2O which appears bluish in thick layers, freezes at zero degrees Celsius and boils at one-hundred degrees Celsius, has a maximum density at four degrees Celsius and a high specific heat, is feebly ionized to hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and is a poor conductor of electricity and a good solvent."<br/><i>- Merriam-Webster, Online Dictionary at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/water.<i>'

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