Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

American Businessman

Jamais Cascio

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

American Writer

Seth Moulton

The Columbia River Basin, which spans seven states in the Pacific Northwest, is one of the largest freshwater networks in North America. For centuries, the Basin has been a catalyst for economic development through the abundance of natural resources it provides.

American Politician

Shari Sebbens

My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water.

Australian Actress

David R. Brower

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

American Environmentalist

Sylvia Earle

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

American Scientist

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

Australian Novelist

Barry Gardiner

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

British Politician

Jeremy Wade

Most sharks can't tolerate freshwater but bull sharks have a quirk of their physiology that enables them to.

Dale Steyn

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

South African Athlete

Freshwater refers to diverse ecosystems beyond lakes, including rivers, streams, and ponds.

Ecosystems Variety

Many species are 'freshwater' and cannot survive in saltwater.

Species Specificity

Not all freshwater is safe for drinking; pollution affects its purity.

Not Drinking Quality

Freshwater is vital for life, used for drinking, agriculture, and sanitation.

Essential Resource

Freshwater is a limited resource; careful management is needed.

Scarce Commodity

Pollution can make freshwater unsafe for human use and affect ecosystems.

Pollution Concerns

When 'freshwater' is an adjective, it often relates to environmental conservation.

Environmental Focus

Freshwater studies are a field of research in ecology and biology.

Science and Research

The term often relates to policies governing water usage and conservation.

Policy and Management

 high as 240 thousand mussels per meter square industrial facilities leading to millions in economic losses every year due to the claws of pipelines of power plants and water treatment industries but I believe the most dangerous impacts are for the freshwater biodiversity in

Sequencing genomes to...

 freshwater challenge what's happening get engaged get informed and also look at your own personal water footprint so we have a tool online our freshwater footprint calculator that's been a very popular tool to help people figure out their number what is my water footprint

Sandra Postel: Troubled...

 and further threaten the downstream communities. And let's face it, we all live downstream in an era of global warming and climate change. What we need, is we all need to act to ensure that Canada respects the massive amounts of freshwater that we hold in this country.

Garth Lenz: The true...

 some of you may not know but there are stingrays in freshwater there are probably 30 or so species of stingrays that live in freshwater and three of those species are some of the world's largest freshwater fish the first project that we had it was on the

Monster Fish, Part 3:...

 Those basins filled with water as the ice began to melt, creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange that persists to this day.

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 presence of this chemical compound that makes the water so brilliantly clear the waters here are home to over 40 species of freshwater fish including these pair of bitanga that you may recognize from the seven worlds one

Predators Swim In The...

 freshwater systems as they create micro habitats for other species they create burrow systems in the sides of river banks this dries out the surrounding soil and helps regulate nitrogen

Saving Water Voles From...

 story a story of a ten year scientific adventure to six continents on the search to find study and protect the world's largest freshwater fish strangely enough this is what my world

Monster Fish, Part 1:...

 is what my project is all about working with with local partners to find study and protect the world's largest freshwater fish and right here fresh water saw fish one of the most

Monster Fish, Part 4:...

 freshwater ecosystems are a lifeline to our very existence