Why is there life on Earth?
Why did this planet grow life and not Mars or Jupiter?
What an amazing thing thing it must've been when Earth moved to the exact
spot in the galaxy, in the universe where hydrogen and oxygen were formed and
mixed to the exact 2-1 ratio H2O. VOILA! Water was born....
Water, that ever changing,ever moving substance. The very same substance
that through it's cycles formed the atmosphere in which life could begin.
If only David Attenborough could've been there to give us the blow by blow
(or should that be flow by flow?), in his brilliant hushed tones. It would be a
few million years before people arrived. Until then, water ruled. To the first
forms of microscopic life, I guess water felt as vast as the universe does to
us. Ever present and never ending.
The amount of water that was created all those millions of years ago is,
incredibly, the SAME amount that exists today!
All that water we drink, or wash in, or hide under an umbrella to avoid has
been here before. It's seen it all, done it all and if it could, it would've
bought the T-shirt.
I imagine a single drop of water has travelled more miles than all the
human race put together.
I would like to think that the water I am drinking today was once falling
in the Himalayas, or once part of the ice that melted across the Bering
Straits.
Perhaps it was, and perhaps it also passed through the gullets of
dinosaurs, and along the body of a blue whale. I can dream can't I?
In some way it seems a shame to trap this fantastic element in closed
central heating systems. The consolation is I suppose that it still gets to move
around albeit a very boring journey. No wonder it breaks out at any opportunity
and runs under your floor boards.
The saddest sight has to be stagnant water. Water that has no movement,
water that has no life.
This has got to be the most unnatural thing of all.
Sadly, there are places where water has no life. Where the life in it has
been destroyed by chemicals, put there by people.
Global Water Management aims to work out how the effects of pollution can be reversed.
WATER IS LIFE.
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