Water

This maybe the one thing that we all take so very much for granted! But, do we realize that we are doing everything in our capacity to be reckless with it's use and wasting it, misusing it in such a way that the future generations are at a risk?

I'm sure you and me have at one time or the other have experienced the sheer pleasure of drinking water after being so very thirsty - nothing comes close to that satisfaction.

A couple months ago, when I hiked in Yosemite I did it with no food or water with me. And believe me, after about 3 hours into the climbing, I could see nothing but water everywhere. There was a river around me, but it's water was not potable. The thought that came to me was - Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink!

The contamination, the wastage and everything else that happens with regards to it, can really worry you if you look into the data!

Save it - it is precious!

The benefits of water are innenumerable - here are some links. There are many more:

http://www.yoga-for-health-and-fitness.com/benefits-of-drinking-water.htm
http://www.benefits-of-drinking-water.com/
http://www.gardenandhearth.com/fitness/Benefits-of-Drinking-Water.htm

Here is a poem on it from Pablo Neruda:

Water


Everything on the earth bristled, the bramble
pricked and the green thread
nibbled away, the petal fell, falling
until the only flower was the falling itself.
Water is another matter,
has no direction but its own bright grace,
runs through all imaginable colors,
takes limpid lessons
from stone,
and in those functionings plays out
the unrealized ambitions of the foam.

Pablo Neruda


I have to also give you some facts and figures on this life sustaining liquid:

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor. About 1.460 petatonnes (Pt) of water covers 71% of the Earth's surface, mostly in oceans and other large water bodies, with 1.6% of water below ground in aquifers and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles suspended in air), and precipitation.[1] Saltwater oceans hold 97% of surface water, glaciers and polar ice caps 2.4%, and other land surface water such as rivers, lakes and ponds 0.6%. Some of the Earth's water is contained within water towers, biological bodies, manufactured products, and food stores. Other water is trapped in ice caps, glaciers, aquifers, or in lakes, sometimes providing fresh water for life on land.

Water moves continually through a cycle of evaporation or transpiration (evapotranspiration), precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea. Winds carry water vapor over land at the same rate as runoff into the sea, about 36 Tt per year. Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute another 71 Tt per year to the precipitation of 107 Tt per year over land. Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and other life. However, in many parts of the world - especially developing countries - there is a water crisis, and it is estimated that by 2025 more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability.[2] Water plays an important role in the world economy, as it functions as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical substances and facilitates industrial cooling and transportation. Approximately 70% of freshwater is consumed by agriculture.

And, here is the Song for the Day:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=apidVtBk5hI