Water is an odourless, tasteless, transparent liquid at room temperature
Water is wet
Water covers about 70 percent of the earth’s surface in the oceans, lakes, rivers, and glaciers
The ancient Egyptian Heliopolitan creation story recounts that the sun-god Atum (Re) reposed in the primordial ocean (Nun)
Ninety-seven percent of the water on the planet is in the form of salt water. Only 3 percent is fresh, and two-thirds of that is ice
Chemically, water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, its molecule consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen – H2O
The physical and chemical properties of water are extraordinarily complicated and incompletely understood
In Assyro-Babylonian mythology, first the gods and subsequently all beings arose from the fusion of salt water (Tiamat) and sweet water (Apsu)
Water is necessary for life
Water falls from the sky as rain and issues from the ground in springs
The water molecule is not linear but bent in a special way. As a result, part of the molecule is negatively charged and part positively charged
The holy books of the Hindus explain that all the inhabitants of the earth emerged from the primordial sea
Water constitutes the greater part of the fundamental substance (protoplasm) of which animal and plant bodies are made
Sap of plants and blood of animals contain large quantities of water
At the beginning of the Judeo-Christian story of creation, the spirit of God is described as “stirring above the waters,” and a few lines later, God creates “a firmament in the midst of the waters to divide the waters” (Genesis 1:1-6)
Water is essential to the manufacture of starch by plants
In ancient Greece, the souls of the dead were ferried across the dark waters of the River Styx
Many foods, such as milk and fruit, have high water content
For drinking purposes, water may
need to be purified
Water present in the earth is called ground water (its upper level is called the water table)
When drunk, the waters of the Lethe, a river in Hades, produced forgetfulness
Water’s composition by weight is one part of hydrogen to eight of oxygen (or 11.1 percent of hydrogen and about 88.9 percent of oxygen)
Water is an agent in erosion of the land
Water is the FONS ET ORIGO, the fount and origin of all forms of life, and naturally connected with women
Water is colorless in small amounts, but exhibits a bluish tinge in large quantities
Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love, was born of the sea
Water is relatively incompressible
In the Koran are the words “We have created every living thing from water”
By convention, one cubic centimeter of water at 4°C. (its temperature at maximum density) weighs one gram
Water is linked with the moon through the movement of tides and by its moon-like flowing, shape-changing quality
In Christianity, baptism links the concepts of the water of life with the waters of purification
When cooled to its freezing temperature (0°C., 32°F., under standard pressure), water changes to a colorless, crystalline solid (ice)
The Garden of Eden is watered by a river that divided into four rivers
Water is less dense as ice than as a liquid at 4°C.
In Judaeo-Christian culture, God is called “the fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 2.13)
Unlike other liquids, water expands in freezing
In 1513, while searching for the fountain of youth, the Spanish conquistador Ponce de Léon discovered Forida.
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