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Sandra Postel
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environmentalist.
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Science Quotes by Sandra Postel (3 quotes)
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.
— Sandra Postel
Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (1997), 184.
Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.
— Sandra Postel
From a study Postel wrote for Worldwatch Institute, quoted in New York Times (22 Sep 1985), 19.
Today's water institutions—the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use—are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.
— Sandra Postel
From a study Postel wrote for Worldwatch Institute, quoted in New York Times (22 Sep 1985), 19.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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