Top Aquifers Quotes Collection

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Image of Erin Brockovich
What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.
- Erin Brockovich
Collection: Aquifers
Image of Lester R. Brown
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
- Lester R. Brown
Collection: Aquifers
Image of Rex W. Tillerson
There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one.
- Rex W. Tillerson
Collection: Aquifers
Image of Josh Fox
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.
- Josh Fox
Collection: Aquifers
Image of Ramez Naam
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.
- Ramez Naam
Collection: Aquifers