We All Need Water

Abstract

Water is essential. Our bodies share with earth’s surface roughly the same proportion of water. Yet more than ever before, many of the world’s peoples are challenged by dwindling water resources, which lessens easy accessibility, and/or results in contaminated water, both of which limit its utility for daily (drinking and bathing) and weekly (washing) necessities. Although we have existed for several million years with virtually the same chemical consistency of water that our hominid ancestors drank, the big question today is whether there is sufficient water for a global population of increasingly more people, many more, than once migrated and, for thousands of years, settled over the earth’s vast land masses. Ninety-seven percent of the earth’s water is salty and two percent is frozen in ice and snow – but this is changing. For the one percent that is left, we use two-thirds for the practice of agriculture, which our species created. No other species has a food production system that requires that much water