Water, I have learned, means different things to different people.
To
the novelist D. H. Lawrence, water was mysterious. It is “hydrogen two
parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water
and nobody knows what that is.”
To the anthropologist Loren Eiseley, water was supernatural: “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
And to the ancient Greek poet Pindar, water was quite simply “the best of all things.”
But
for millions of people in the developing world – especially women and
girls – water means a daily struggle to trek to a source, carry fifty
pounds of it home, and then hope against hope that drinking it won’t
make a family member sick or die.
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