Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.
Interpretation
Water is essential for addressing issues of poverty and economic development.
In her quote, Sunita Narain highlights the vital role that water plays in overcoming poverty and encouraging growth. Access to clean water is not only a fundamental human right but also a critical resource that enables communities to thrive, improve health, promote agriculture, and sustain economic activities, thereby tackling the dual challenges of poverty alleviation and growth simultaneously.
In practice
During a seminar on sustainable development, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of water.
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory
Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.
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