Water Management Quotes

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”
― Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement

“We've reached a point in water management where if it's not water reuse, it's water abuse.”
― Don Beard

“Will nature rebel? Will the Colorado burst its dams? Will the cost of maintaining our enormous water and energy networks become prohibitive? Or will we ourselves rebel for spiritual and ascetic reason and put a brake on growth? No one really knows. But if we want to create a society in Arizona that is more than a series of booms and busts, we need to make the fit between nature and culture more like a membrane and less like a life-support system. There is too much at stake in this wild, dry land to do otherwise.”
― Thomas E. Sheridan, Arizona: A History

“.., the modern American, particularly in Texas and the Southwest, talks progressive, but he votes conservative. He assails Washington and all its works, but demands more than his share of federal money; indeed the Southwest only exists at all thanks to federal spending on water projects, without which it would go back to the desert within a year.”
― Jon Manchip White, A World Elsewhere: Life in the American Southwest (Volume 8)