Source - Quote of the week
Greta Steyn, South African columnist on sanitation vs football stadiums
22 Jun 10
If the city of Cape Town can afford a world class stadium, surely it can afford closed-off toilets?
Edward Kairu, Chairman of the African Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation (ANEW)
29 Apr 10
People cannot drink promises, so the real test is whether today’s announcements will be translated into action on the ground.
Ms Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa
29 Apr 10
Action is needed yesterday. We should be ashamed that our people live in such conditions.
Mrs. Momota Begum, 45, living in a three-decade old refugee camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh
16 Nov 09
It would be a heaven's gift if a proper drainage system could be arranged in this area where all the drains are covered and do not overflow.
Harpal Sirshwa, 22 year-old villager from Nilokheri, Haryana, India
14 Oct 09
I will have to work hard to afford a toilet. We won't get any bride if we don't have one now.
Annet Muragijimana, 13-year girl waiting at a borehole in Gasagara, Rwanda
10 Sep 09
“Sometimes we sit for more than four hours before we get water and when someone powerful and bigger comes, they don’t need to wait".
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, USA
30 Jun 09
Perhaps no two issues are more important to human health, economic development, and peace and security than basic sanitation and access to sustainable supplies of water.
'Pani Ba' (the water man) Balaram Karki, Nepal
13 May 09
I feel donating drinking water is better than blood donation and eye donation. Therefore, I started to distribute water free of cost
Muslim Khan, spokesman, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
28 Apr 09
They [foreigners] come and tell us how to make latrines in mosques and homes. I’m sure we can do it ourselves.
US President Barack Obama: “…let clean waters flow”
30 Jan 09
In his inauguration speech on 20 January 2009, President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of water in poverty reduction.
