‘Let’s pay attention’ I am provided this timely article about
water from Della Moen of the Stephenson Soil and Water
Conservation District. When everything is working the way we
think it should, we barely notice. That’s true about the
availability of water. Where we live, we use it routinely. Then
comes a drought and we notice. Without rain (and snow) our fresh
water supply diminishes. A reminder: Fresh water on which all
plant and animal life depends is less than 3 percent of the
earth’s supply of water. Ninety-seven percent of the water on
earth is salt water and not available for our use as it is. And
two-thirds of freshwater is not available to us because it is
frozen in the polar caps. Water molecules are not being created
or destroyed only recycled – evaporated, condensed and
precipitated as pure water molecules that we know chemically as
H2O. According to writer Natalie Angier, “As fetuses, we gestate
in bags of water. As adults, we are bags of water: roughly 60
percent of our body weight comes from wa