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quotes[0]='Over 1 billion people don\'t have access to clean drinking water; more than 2 billion lack access to adequate sanitation; and millions die every year due to preventable water-related diseases. <i>-Pacific Institute</i>'

quotes[1]='Every year, old sewers flooded by stormwater release more than 27 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the New York Harbor alone... <i>-NYS DEC</i>'

quotes[2]='All regions of the world show an overall net negative impact of climate change on water resources and freshwater ecosystems. <i>IPCC, 2007</i>'

quotes[3]='The conservative cost estimate of repairing, replacing, and updating New York\'s municipal wastewater infrastructure is $36.2 billion over the next 20 years. <i>-NYS DEC</i>'

quotes[4]='Americans get half of their fresh drinking water from underground sources. In 2005, the oil and gas industry was granted an exemption from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, making oil and gas the only industry allowed to inject toxic fluids directly into good quality groundwater without oversight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. <i>-Oil & Gas Accountability Project</i>'

quotes[5]='In New York, extracting natural gas from the shale would involve deeper, more complicated wells than the state has previously licensed. Each of those wells, possibly numbering in the thousands, would suck up and later spit out as much as five million gallons of water in a process called horizontal hydraulic fracturing, placing an unprecedented burden on New York\'s watersheds... <i>-Pro Publica</i>'

quotes[6]='More than 88 percent of the golf courses on the east end of Long Island have accepted a challenge to protect the health of the Peconic Estuary and other local waters by reducing their use of fertilizers. This is the first time that a group of golf courses in one geographic area of the country have voluntarily agreed to better manage their fertilizer use to limit the amount of nitrogen that enters ground water, ultimately winding up in rivers, streams and the estuary. <i>-EPA</i>'

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