Evaporation Sprayers ... In flow-back pits the water is sprayed into the air ... They create ozone hazardous air pollutants and they fall down in the form of chemical or acid rains on the grasslands. ibid.
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. David Suzuki
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too – especially if they're poor and indigenous. David Suzuki
In the US where fracking is well established there’s growing alarm amid stories of gas-contaminated drinking water. Tonight: The Truth about Fracking, ITV 2013
Water pollution – who’s to blame? What effect is it having on our rivers and lakes? Is enough being done to stop the polluters? And how do we have to put a solution in place? Tonight: Who’s Pollution Our Water? ITV 2022
‘There is not a single river in England that isn’t currently listed as being in good overall environmental health.’ ibid. Fergal Sharkey
Water companies are allowed to discharge untreated sewage into rivers and the sea but they need a permit and it has to be in exceptional circumstances … The privatized water companies have been allowed to self monitor. ibid.
Britain’s dirty seas and rivers. Beach-goers told to keep out of the water. Sewage being released into our rivers. And just who is responsible? Tonight: Dirty Water: What Went Wrong? ITV 2023
Hundreds of thousands of times a year those waters are being polluted by sewage. And research suggests we don’t even know how dirty our waterways are. ibid.
The Gulf Stream moves a hundred times as much water as all the rivers on Earth. Oceans IV: Atlantic Ocean, BBC 2008
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798
Still waters run deep. Early 15th century proverb
The Romans developed the science of urban planning. They invented cement, built gigantic public storehouses, and installed city-wide sewage systems. But their greatest achievement was the water supply. Rome: Power and Glory: The Rise s1e1, Discovery 2010
I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great I G Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly twenty years’ research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine – any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically. Charles E Perkins, chemist 2nd October 1954
The American Medical Association is not prepared to state that no harm will be done to any person by water fluoridation. The AMA has not carried out any research work, either long-term or short-term, regarding the possibility of any side effects. Dr Joseph Flanagan, Assistant Director of Environmental Health, American Medical Association
66% of US water supplies are currently fluoridated with industrial waste. Ben Stewart, Esoteric Agenda
The aluminium industry & fluoridation: fluoride defenders will say there’s two stories: there’s the industrial story and there’s the dental story, and ne’er the twain shall meet. It’s not true. Christopher Bryson, PSTV.tv – The Fluoride Deception
The very first suggestion that fluoride be added to public water supplies was made by a researcher Gerald Cox at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. ibid.
Right at the very source of the stream you find the aluminium industry. ibid.
The Mellon Institute was a leader defender of asbestos for the asbestos industry. ibid.
Dr Harold Hodge for most of the Cold War was the leading scientific defender of the safety of low doses of fluoride and the beneficial effects of water fluoridation ... Harold Hodge we now know was a co-orchestrator of the human radiation experiments. ibid.
If water fluoridation was found to be harmful then the US bomb program as well as many other fluoride polluting industries would have been open to massive litigation. ibid.
The Kettering Laboratory: selling us lead, selling us fluoride. ibid.
The Role of Fluoride in Public Health: The Soundness of Fluoridation of Communal Water Supplies: A Selected Bibliography The Kettering Institute. ibid.
Buried Science, Buried Workers. ibid.
Within days of learning that her study was accepted for publication, Dr [Phyllis] Mullenix was fired from the Forsyth Dental Center. She has received no grants since that time to continue her research. ibid.
66% of US water supplies are currently fluoridated with industrial waste. ibid.
Since 1999 over 60 US communities have rejected fluoridation proposals. ibid.
Arabia is addicted to water. Wild Arabia III: Shifting Sands, BBC 2013
The documents indicate that the University of Rochester’s fluoride research ... was performed in anticipation of lawsuits against the bomb program for human injury. Studies undertaken for litigation purposes by the defendants would not be considered scientifically acceptable today, because of their inherent bias to prove the chemical safe. Jacqueline Kittrell, public interest lawyer 1997
US inventor Stan Meyers released his water-powered car engine in 1988 ... Mayers found it virtually impossible to secure finance after certain Pentagon officials paid him a visit. News report
Fluoride is safe. There’s no health hazard that justifies postponing water fluoridation. Dr Harold Hodge
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free! Helen Keller, The Story of My Life 1902
Smooth runs the water when the brook is deep. William Shakespeare, II Henry VI III i 53, Suffolk et al
A little water clears us of this deed. William Shakespeare, Macbeth II ii 68
So next time you’re drinking a glass of water, realise that you’re probably drinking comet and asteroid juice. Professor Michio Kaku
Find water elsewhere and aliens could exist nearby. Stephen Hawking’s Universe: Into the Universe: Aliens: Are We Alone? 2010
Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere ... When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy. Theodore Roosevelt