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You don't miss your water 'til the well runs dry.
- Popular expression


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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally, the river floods these places. 'Floods' is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding, it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has perfect memory and is forever trying to get back where it was.
- Toni Morrison, quoted in Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers

I've had my life planned by the Rio Grande.
- Tish Hinojosa

Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion?
- Jack Kerouac

Although we have successfully apportioned the two major rivers that we (the United States and Mexico) share in common, we have not reached agreement on groundwater. We have no treaty allocating the use of water from trans boundary aquifers. Consequently, no one knows what their share of these waters is. No one has certainty of water supply nor security of water right. Groundwater has been out of sight and out of mind.
- Albert Utton

The Rio Conchos in Mexico has nine dams, strung along the river above Carmago as the Mexican government developed irrigation schemes to induce people to migrate to the north from the more crowded southern states. By 1975, 60 percent of the river's native fish species had vanished.
- Peter Steinhart, Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: The Natural World of the United States - Mexico Borderlands

Summer weather in the Sonoran Desert is extreme. Rarely does a gentle rainfall soak the ground over hours or days. Instead, storms crash in, cool the earth, and disperse.
Winston Erickson - Sharing the Desert: the Tohono O'odham in History

At its broadest, the Amazon is forty miles wide, so that from a boat in midstream it becomes impossible to make out either bank, and the illusion of a boundless river-sea is complete.
- Jonathan Kandell, Passage through El Dorado

And then, as never on land, he knows the truth that his world is a water world, a planet dominated by its covering mantle of ocean, in which the continents are but transient intrusions of land above the surface of the all-encircling sea.
- Rachel Carson, The Sea around Us

More than 150 villages line the shores of Lake Titicaca. No two have identical landscapes.
- Ben Orlove, Lines in the Water (review)

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