This is the urgency of the human being’s relationship with water: We cannot go long, not long at all, without water and hope to survive. In a conservative estimate, one can assume major organ damage – if not death – after three days without fresh water. Every single cell in the body requires water in […]
In a crisis, what happens to the ten percent of the world’s population already struggling with lack of clean water? “You don’t miss your water until your well runs dry,” sings Otis Redding in his 1965 lament. Though these lyrics refer, metaphorically, to a lost love, the folk saying from where it derives was probably […]