Water reflects our future [antikvár]

The water of all of us is the water of each of usWater.Together with air, the element essential to life. The main constituent of all organisms - animal or plant. Water - seemingly available for all, arid yet inaccessible to so many.Water - a source of life when used to refresh and soothe; a deadly threat when overabundant or simply lacking.We encounter water everywhere - in the home and in industry, in our leisure time and in hygiene, in navigation and in quenching our thirst; and everywhere it is such a fragile commodity. By means of dams and ducts, taps and bottles, man has domesticated water - a major achievement of old and modern civilisation. But when you tame something, you become responsible for it - forever. So man has a responsibility - for the water he has already polluted, for the water he has wasted and for the drinking water which more than 1,500 million of his fellow-men are lacking. He is also responsible for the water which he will be leaving to posterity, whether he is a political decision-maker, an industrialist or an ordinary consumer, because the water of all of us is the water of each of us.Accordingly, there is no alternative - man must think again about his attitude to water and the place of this vital fluid in the planetary cycle, and his actions must follow the only rational, viable course.The more water, the better.