Source - Quote of the week
Sophia Abdi Noor, executive director, Womankind Kenya
15 May 06
Where is the time for politics if women there have to walk about 100 kilometres, or spend between seven and ten hours each day, to get water?
Damas Coulibaly, national water company SODECI, Côte d'Ivoire
15 May 06
We have done everything to warn them, but a lot of people seem to think that it is God who is giving them drinking water.
Fatuma Ali Mahmood, a “well widow” from Rabdore, Somalia
28 Apr 06
Thirst forces men to this horror of war.
Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, President, AGFUND, Saudi Arabia
28 Apr 06
One idea could be to undertake studies on the relocation of inhabitants of areas suffering from water shortages to regions within the same country where water is plentiful.
Muna Lakhani, Earthlife Africa, South Africa
29 Mar 06
The idea that flush toilets are the best is a type of mental colonisation.
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and Ruben Avendano, water expert, IDB
29 Mar 06
I am convinced that potable water - water in general - cannot be a private business, but a public service instead.
Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
21 Mar 06
A girl from the slums will try to get a husband who can at least provide a toilet.
Kevin Watkins, director, Human Development Report Office, UNDP
10 Mar 06
None of us should tolerate a world in which over 1 million children are, in a perversely literal sense, dying for a glass of water and a toilet.
Abdullahi Maalim Hussein, village elder, Somalia
28 Feb 06
Some people are dying and children are drinking their own urine because there is simply no water available for them to drink.
Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia
28 Feb 06
This water crisis is equal to any war or famine.
