About Water:
I've been thinking a lot about water and my use of it these days. My thoughts veer in this direction partly because hot water takes a very long time to arrive. In my apartment, I turn on the tap and then wait and wait and wait; running what feels like gallons and gallons of water through the plumbing before it gets hot. As this feels very wasteful, I've been examining my use of hot water and trying to use it optimally; only when it's really needed; as well as trying to make better use of the cold water I get first. My attention is also drawn here because I've recently purchased "About Water" from CD Baby (until March 2020 when CD Baby ceased operations, you could listen to clips on their weh-side and purchase it if you so desired... However I now have NO idea where it might be available... ). This CD has me thinking that if I had to walk 4 hours to the well every day I'd use water differently and quite likely better...
I've also been thinking about its purity. Has water ever been really pure? I think not. It has always fallen from the sky to the earth and then run over and through everything on its path and this has always included the "shit" from all the creatures living here, as well as all the chemicals and organic compounds that make up earth's soil and rock. I suspect we're only just now becoming aware of what can be in it and the impact our choices have.
Currently, we use chemicals to kill "germs" or "pests" (things we think cause disease or damage our crops or...) or add them to make human life more comfortable or... but then we have to live with the effects of these concentrated chemicals leaching into our water supply or concentrate them further by filtering them out and then dumping the filtered concentrate in a landfill somewhere... Things toxic when concentrated are often beneficial in dilution... and poisons aren't specific to a designated target. They often have far reaching, unimaginable consequences... The costs are frequently unknown, stretching far into the future and affecting many life-forms, while the reached for human benefits are closer and more apparent... but maybe not always essential...
In addition to feeling the need for water and making the everyday, personal decisions about where to get it and how to use it... and where and when to use chemicals; I have to ask: "Is the search for plentiful, pure water just another seemingly necessary quest to realize some mythical ideal which is never meant to REALLY be?" Is the unreachable ideal something humans have to stretch for? If such stretches are essential to the human experience; where and how are they done best and how is one to deal with the potential aftermath of disappointment or frustration when reality falls short of the ideal? Some things to ponder...
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