Ismail Serageldin quotes

Ismail Serageldin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.”
-- Ismail Serageldin

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“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.”
-- Ismail Serageldin

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“The next World War will be over water”
-- Ismail Serageldin

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“Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.”
-- Ismail Serageldin

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“We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today”
-- Ismail Serageldin

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