Saturday 12 July 2014

It has no taste, but we love to taste it, to drink it. It has no colour and no form as such, but for many to be submerged in it, or to holiday besides it and take part in sorts on, and in it, is simply a must. Our planet is covered up to two-thirds by it and even humans, even as I write this, me you and everybody is cconstiuted of 72% water.
Physics tells us that water is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen which gives water its unique qualities and so water moecules never bind, but restlessly seek something to bond with billions of times a second. The result is that water can form small bodiesof water, for instance puddles and lakes. But has the quality of being separable when we want to partake of a water sport. But when we hit it at speed, or it hits us at speed, like a Tidal Wave, then it is very, very hard.
Water is a not only  a vital constituent of our bodies, but needed on a regular basis to maintain our health. And that is why as global warming increases it will become a resource over which nations, states and ethnic groups will go to war to ensure its supply.
My father fought for the British 8th Army in North Africa in World War 2, and as he stated, for hime water, or aqua, was the most beautiful drink in the world.
And now I reach out for a glass of water, but not replenished from a tap, as we now do not trust entirely what it gives us, but instead from a bottle of spring water. Which incidentally has a sell by date on it, for a substance that has been perculating through rocks and fissures for millions of time beyond measure. Strange.

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