Kofi Annan Quotes About Water
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If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.
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As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.
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Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.
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We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
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Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
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Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.
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