"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."

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Source : Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst

Sandra Postel

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“Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. Â Itâ€™s how you feel for a moment in your life when youâ€™re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.”
“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.”

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“I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.”
“I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.”
“If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.”
“Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.”
“If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.”
“My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.”

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