The Drink of Life.

The House of Zoeda Lending Hands Inc. | Medium | Sept. 30, 2019

Where there is water there is life. Without water, there is no existence. Light, air, and water are basic to the creation and sustenance of life. In fact, life is mostly water. The average human is about 70% water. Several vegetables contain an even larger proportion of water. Indeed, one can live much longer without food than without water. The production of food itself is dependent on water.

If sometimes, we focus more attention on food than water, it is because nature has been so enormously graceful in providing us with near-unlimited supplies of this elixir of life. Yet, water is not abundant everywhere on earth. With an increasing population of humans, parts of the world are facing an increasing scarcity of this essential resource. Even in places where freshwater is available in abundance, its quality is not the best possible one for human consumption, resulting in health problems for those who consume it.

Mankind has recognized the importance of water and its quality since ancient times. It has played a central role in ancient religions of the world. Descriptions of hell and heaven are rarely complete without a description of the quality of water that is available for drinking. The water available for drinking in heavenly realms has been described as sweet and nourishing whereas in a hellish region it is depicted as one that burns the throat. Even here on earth, there are many places where available drinking water is unpleasant in taste and full of disease-causing bacteria or chemicals. The quality and quantity of available water is a major index of the quality of life of different parts of our planet.

Oceans that cover a major portion of the earth’s surface area the largest reservoirs of water on earth. However, because of the high salt content, ocean water is not suitable for drinking. Seawater is unsuitable for drinking even by severely dehydrated persons. Persons marooned at sea for prolonged periods have learned to their peril that even though seawater may appear to quench thirst somewhat, it eventually leads to greater dehydration of the body. Water that evaporates from the surface of the oceans gathers into clouds.

Condensation of these clouds over land masses results in rain, hail, and snow over land. This rain and snow is the source of our natural freshwater. Some of this water returns to the sea through rivers that flow back to the oceans. Some percolates into the ground resulting in underground rivers and reservoirs. Some remains as snow, frozen for long periods of time in the Polar Regions and on mountaintops. The snow that collects on high mountains melts slowly during summer months to feed rivers through the dry months.

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