Water

First Thing about Water
Water is important to human life. The primary importance is to sustain life. It is colourless, without smell, without sediments, without taste, and soothing to touch and taste. Water is usually in liquid form, but it can also have a solid form (ice) and vaporous form (water vapour). Water can be a friend or an enemy for us.

Water as a Friend
In domestic uses, water is used to cook our meat and vegetables, make our soups and broths, help in washing ourselves, our vegetables and fruits, our pets, our utensils, our house, our equipment.

In social, health, and commercial uses, water is used to water our gardens, fields and parks, wash our drains and drainage systems, provide us with a versatile solvent, help to make our beverages, mixture and medicines, help to clean our factories and machinery.

The other essential function of water is to put out fires, clear the air and channels of pollutants.

Water Bodies
Water is in liquid form, so it need a place to fill it in.

As the lakes and rivers, water adds the beauty of the place, enables man to move into areas that are otherwise difficult to access, provides man with a supply of food and minerals, and if the water still clean, it can be used for washing ourselves.

As seas and oceans, water provides man with a means of communication for pleasure or business and trade, has a large supply of food and minerals which man can use, regulates a moist atmosphere for living creatures.

Water as the Enemy
Water can erode the land, damage ports and coastal settlements, flood and fields and residential or industrial areas

Polluted water can injure the health and survival of living creatures, spread water-born diseases
rapidly.

Water can also drown animals, birds, and even people

A Superior Natural Element
Water can be man’s best friend, but, not any man-designed safeguard or force can ever seek to enslave it because it is one of Nature’s superior elements. Water is a superior natural elements because it can move the watermill to produce electricity, as transportation from one country to another country.

If we use the water wisely and protect our environments, surely the negative side of water can be reduced.