Jan Aceti Brookline Mar 14, 2006 20:45 pm

I thought that those of you working on water issues would appreciate and perhaps have use for this vivid quote. In 2000, while serving as the president of a global non-profit working to foster a sustainable future, Mikhail Gorbachev wrote for the magazine of the U.S. Library of Congress, that "water, not unlike religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to water. People move when there is too little of it; people move when there is too much of it. People move on it. People write and sing and dance and dream about it. People fight over it. And everybody, everywhere and every day, needs it. We need water for drinking, for cooking, for washing, for food, for industry, for energy, for transport, for rituals, for fun, for life. And it is not only we humans who need it; all life is dependent upon water for its very survival."

Regards,
Jan

Jan Aceti
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