On a road trip through Norway a couple of summers ago the sheer number of lakes we drove past, over, under and through was breathtaking. An endless succession of limpid sweet water pools, some massive, others petite, some with inexplicable homes in the middle of them, many with elks and moose drinking at their banks. I couldn’t help but think of the unfairness of world water distribution; so much all the way up there, so clean and pure and yet in other parts of the world there is almost none and what little there is of it is dirty, diseased and unsafe, in so many places where the cursed ‘bottom billion’ live, or do their best to do so.
This year World Water Day puts the focus on the connection between water and the creation of energy, clean safe energy like the Norwegians produce, (for example most of their electricity comes from hydropower) in a bid to improve health and environmental standards and make the lives of those billion better, liveable.
Water is indeed life, and there are even those who sustain that it is in fact alive. A Japanese man by the name of Masaru Emoto, a Doctor of Alternative Medicine is one of those and he claims that water is responsive to kindness and cruelty just like all living things are – people, animals, water…….
