9 Downstream Quotes for You to Enjoy

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. W. C. Fields

Remember Live Takes Dead Fish Upstream Swim Float Downstream

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. Sylvia Earle

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. Naomi Klein

Change People Oppose Opposing Living Indigenous Indigenous People Poisons Most Because Climate Climate Change Tar Canada Sands Bodies Who Downstream Here

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. Hassanal Bolkiah

Other Our Considering Ways Various Raw Raw Materials Import Industries Making Materials Sources Oil Use Downstream Gas

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now. Shashi Tharoor

Fight Water Internet Live AIDS Deforestation Has-Been About Observed Advances Democratic Era Affect Been Southeast Southeast Asia Southern American Africa Pollution Happens Which Against Asia Now Downstream

I used to have seven dogs; now I have a more manageable four. I was in Cornwall, and one dog got swept away downstream, so my cousin dived in to get it, then her dog dived in. So I jumped in to rescue hers. Those dogs are my calm. That's how I cope with the business - I get the sanity on my woodland dog walks, being a tomboy. Alesha Dixon

Business Dog Calm Walks Cornwall Hers Seven Those More Got How Dogs Cousin Get Manageable Woodland Being Then Sanity Used Rescue Swept Now Downstream Away Tomboy Her Cope Four

While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective on a larger scale. But computer modelling indicates that restoring forests on floodplains could slow floodwaters and reduce the height of the flood downstream. Alice Roberts

Work Slow Scale Has-Been Would Would-Be Restoring Small Area Unclear Could Computer Rivers Along Reduce Been Effective Forests Modelling Whether While Height Planting Shown Flood Downstream Larger Larger Scale

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. John Breaux

Problems Drainage States Constructed Also Accepts Louisiana Upstream While Explain Coast United Downstream Floods United States Levees Necessary Needed Two-Thirds

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream. John Salazar

Water Burden Live Carry Cost Clean Clean Up Clean Water Simply Because Up Taxpayers Should Communities Downstream Right