Potable Water Quotes

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

'Absolute Water' converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed - if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet?

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.