Water, Water, Everywhere!

Seven-tenths of our plane is covered by water. Water. Without it none of us would survive. Not the fish we eat, the birds that control insect and marine populations, not the steak and chips we know so well. Not us.

Within hours we would become dehydrated, develop oedema, swell up, dry out. Our lungs would fill with our own bodily fluids. We would cough but it wouldn’t help. We would cry out but it wouldn’t matter. We would pray and beg. We would plead, but death would come.

Oedema. Death.

Water.

Let’s hope it never comes to that.