"WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, wrote as the Albatross was beginning to be avenged:
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The situation of life-imperative, available, drinking water raises its specter constantly. On the West Bank, there is a water shortage. From AljazeerEnglish comes: "Water shortage in the West Bank"
"The Middle East is in the grip of a drought.
In Israel, it's just beginning to have an impact, but just a few miles away in the occupied West Bank, the crisis is much more acute."

We who never experience drought to that extent can hardly understand the hardships. Click on the right side, on the lady with the head covering to watch the video.

In the US, there is a town with a public spring pump. Neighbors have complained of too much traffic so the plan is for the State to shut it down.

Flooding and raw sewage becomes a great problem.
Thus water can be a blessing and a curse, like so many things in our lives! We can't live with it or without it, under so many often misunderstood conditions.