Introduction to Water for Life

Welcome to the seas, the oceans, the waters of the deep...from which life first crawled out of the primordial mud onto the earth because the Spirit of God hovered o'er the deep...and into which we daily dump multi-tons of raw sewage, medical wastes and garbage. Another rape of God's Beloved.

Welcome to the crystal clear streams flowing down from the mountain tops, laughing and gurgling over silent rocks, leaping from cliff face to cliff face, then detouring round beaver homes still being erected someplace in the wild. Home to fish, frog and dragonflies are these streams, and a haven for the line fisherman who wants to spend a few hours away from the city.

Welcome to the desert where water falls from the sky in instant torrents, only to be sucked down into the sands...there to find its way to an aquifer which feeds a few natural wells, or trickle its way to the river creeping through at the bottom of a crevasse. On its way to California's irrigated desert perhaps? Will it never again visit its Mexican kin?

Politics of Water

Water, precious, rare, life-sustaining water. We can't live without it. And most of us can't afford to pay any more for the privilege to drink it. As privatization increases and wells dry up, the politics of water is becoming a new cry across barren lands where poverty-stricken folk are denied the gift that was once freely given by Grace. Yes, it has become yet another commodity, with rights to be bought by power and sold to the highest bidder. He who owns the water will determine the politics of any area. Without water nothing will grow. Without water, nothing will live.

Our Watery History

How did we get here? We have a history with water, which has meant many things to many different people at many different times in history. Water baptizes our young, water cleanses our sins, water washes away the grime of a misspent life so we may be prepared for burial. Water offers beauty in the form of natural waterfalls and the glistening of moonlight on the placid surface of a lake. Water is fearful as it thunders down on us in the monsoons or forces and scrabbles its way across the land in a raging flood. Water is soft and giving as it flows gently around us in our jacuzzi, but it is hard and relentless as it carves its way down through canyons and wears away the stone of millenia.

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