Groundwater Quotes

• A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

  Mike Lowry

  Air, Tree, Cleaning

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• If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

  Marc Reisner

  California, Water, Environmental

  Marc Reisner (1986). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water”

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• Siempre he sido un gran defensor del agua del grifo, no porque la considere inofensiva, sino porque me molesta la idea de comprar agua extraída de alguna cuenca remota y luego transportada por medio mundo. Beber agua embotellada libera a la gente de su preocupación por las amenazas ecológicas al río junto al que viven o a las cuencas de agua subterránea sobre las que viven. Es el mismo tipo de pensamiento que lleva a algunos a la conclusión complaciente de que si las cosas en la Tierra empeoran lo suficiente, bueno, nos iremos volando a una estación espacial en otro lugar.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Beber, Pensar, Ríos

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• Todo lo que estoy viendo en América, cuando se trata de la contaminación de las aguas subterráneas y el envenenamiento de las personas que veo, es una cuestión moral. Nadie va a convencerme de que a un CEO no le importaría si su propio hijo fuera envenenado.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

  William McNamara

  Cutting, Compassion, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Cuando se trata de lluvia ácida, vertidos de petróleo, agotamiento de recursos pesqueros, aguas subterráneas contaminadas, propulsores de fluorocarbono, fugas de radiación o enfermedades de transmisión sexual, las fronteras nacionales son irrelevantes. Las toxinas no se detienen en las inspecciones aduaneras y los microbios no llevan pasaporte. Norteamérica se convirtió en una zona acuática y de libre comercio mucho antes de que el TLCAN flexibilizara el mercado de bienes.

  Benjamin Barber

  Lluvia, Simple, Zona comercial

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• The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.

  Wes Jackson

  Mean, Loss, Land

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• California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state`s first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

  Chris Hayes

  California, Water, Lasts

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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• There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Drinking, Agriculture

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• ... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

  David W. Orr

  Moving, Air, Law

  David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

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