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The Importance of Water.

The temperatures here have been near or over 100 F for months, and there’s been considerably under an inch of rain. It’s like living in a tinderbox. I’ve put a sprinkler on low, and have just been moving it about, day by day. Yesterday, tiny baby Sparrows which can’t yet fly were launching themselves from the trees, landing with thumps, to be able to get a drink of water. There’s no life without water.

© C. Ford.

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Comments

  1. rq says

    The water is making alien plant shapes in the first. Happy little birds are temporarily happy.

  3. kestrel says

    Funny… I have lived in the desert west for nearly my whole life and it’s odd how people who have never gone without water, or had to haul it every day from somewhere else, don’t realize just what a life-and-death matter water is. Where I live my neighbors have actually attempted to kill each other, have killed each other or have committed suicide over water. I’ve been threatened with having my house burnt to the ground and having my livestock shot, over water. When there isn’t very much of it, people can get really ugly about it. I believe it will be lack of water, not food, that will cause the greatest trouble for humanity.

  4. says

    Lofty:

    Nothing like a little sprinkler play to cheer up a little dinosaur on a hot day.

    I wish that’s what this was. The babies launching themselves from the trees, it’s almost certain death for them to be on the ground, but apparently it’s better than dying of thirst in safety.

  5. says

    Kestrel:

    When there isn’t very much of it, people can get really ugly about it. I believe it will be lack of water, not food, that will cause the greatest trouble for humanity.

    Oh, I agree. A lack of water brings out the very worst in humans. You can stuff just about anything in your mouth when it’s a matter of hunger, but no water is a very different thing. The severe drought we’ve been under for months -- I can’t help but wonder just how happy the oil idiots are now about placing poison in all the rivers. It’s going to get very ugly, and people take water for granted to such a degree, they won’t be able to cope with the loss.

  6. fusilier says

    kestrel @3

    IINM, but Syria has been in a drought for the past 10 or so years.

    smithsonianmagDOTcom/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for-the-conflict-in-syria-72513729/

    fusilier

    James 2:24

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