Dam Nation Quotes

“can be traced back more than four billion years to the planet's formation. Every drop has moved through oceans and rivers and aquifers, has filtered through plants and animals and people from when the world began. Molecules in that glass of water you just drank passed through the kidneys of a brontosaurus-and through the kidneys of Aztecs and Mongolians and Bostonians, through the bladders of priests and poets and thieves. Each drop of water in the Colorado River is used an average of seventeen times. But when the path from toilet to tap is so direct that there is no large body of water in between-no lake or river in which the tainted water can seep back into soil and sand and mix with trillions of other water molecules to dilute its filth and then”
― Stephen Grace, Dam Nation: How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future