TEMA #3

What is water?

Water is a chemical combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Water is not simply water. Because water is transparent, but water is blue. Water is tasteless. Cucumbers consist of ninety-seven percent of water, humans of seventy. Water is basic nutrition and essential condition. Water is a state. The state of water is no state. Water is motion, is flow, is whirl, wave and fall. Still waters run deep. Water is precious and yet it is in danger. Too much water is dangerous. Too little is worse. Water is a habitat, constantly shrinking. Water is a human right. Unfortunately not. Water is private. Water is contested. Water is a commodity because water is finite. Water is vital and it is essential. And far too often, water is taken for granted. Water is ice, snow and rain. Water is a strain. Water is death and water is life.

In this issue, TEMA wants to research, not only what role water currently plays in our lives, but also what we can do to revive our relationship to H2O, in order to distribute this scarce but essential resource fairly, between humans, animals and nature.