Water Conservation Quotes:

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Running, Teaching, Hands, Water Conservation, Gallons

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

- Eric Burdon

topic: California, People, Water, Southern California, Squandering

I have been asked so many times why I live a green life, why water conservation, why getting wells in places, why work with water organizations, why conserve water at home with double-flush toilets, why I tell my daughters, "Turn off the tap" so much. Sometimes I want to say, "I wish I knew the answer." My answer really is: I don't understand why everyone doesn't feel this way.

- Alysia Reiner

source: "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

topic: Daughter, Get Well, Home, Water Conservation

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

- Ron Kind

topic: Government, Land, Oil, Land And Water, Water Conservation

I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.

- Gail Collins

source: "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

topic: Writing, Government, Sight, Water Conservation