It is a good time for us to store fresh water to curb the salt tide.

Water diversion is only a short-term measure to curb salt tides, as it will be forced to stop if there is not sufficient water in the river's upper reaches.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.