Essay
by: Santiago Rodriguez
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love”
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats
Liquid beauty
Rereading William Shakespeare’s quote above, I led
myself into the deep introspection exercise
of relating literature to real life. In doing so, I realised myself that I had such wide array of possible
scenarios in my life to fit out these words that I was overwhelmed and
Immediately I started to ran out of
words. Quiet, thoughtful: I felt myself dry, thirsty with my mouth on fire,
cadging for a drop of water for my shrivelled throat. Then I agreed with Keats’
quote; everyday someone whose name was writ with water someday dies without it.
Analysing
the situation of natural resources in time around the world, it is attainable
to say that the panorama isn’t the best. Due to the fact that every day more
the amount of wild forest chopped down is highly increasing all around the
world. Therefore, the amount of water sources is drastically being reduced.
Actually, nobody is angling for a solution. As a matter of fact, people
continue being incautious about what’s really happening with their primary
source of subsistence. Water. Marshall,
T., & Cutraro, J. (2014 ). Explain the several issues on these days related
to water “the world’s most valuable substance” in their article they go through
the very beginning of a drought in some areas of the United States, where water
seems to be as scarce as peasants sowing the crops. Continuing with the
remarkable role of water for the survival of Palestinians in the Gaza strip due
to the monopoly of water Jews have and the sanctions Jordan might receive if
they continue providing water to Palestinians in the Middle East conflict, next
they also describe the different measures most Americans are taken related to
water preservation if they could face another terrorist attack. Hence, most of
the Americans have changed their minds saving and storing water as if this was
the most valuable substance indeed. Later, this article also furnishes an
interesting explanation about the vital role of each molecule of water in the human
body, going through the whole inside blood cells compound in a large amount by
water to the very saliva which helps to digest food. Finally, this couple
present the privileges states of mind provided by water in the human body. At the end of this article this two reporters
ask. What your water story? Something I might dare to answer as hamlet did, in
one scene with his dearest Ophelia. - “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; -- Doubt truth to be a liar; -- But never
doubt I love”.
Trying
to keep myself out of the rain the other evening, it came to my mind the idea
of lacking of rain. Something real bad, because of the fact that the world’s drama,
romance and poetry have being linked to rain as a long life companionship,
infeasible divided. At least in
entertainment! But in real life, lack of
rain could be an issue in some years, given the fact that natural hydrological
sources are being reduced due to the growth of the world’s population which is
esteemed to be multiplied in three billion during the following 50 years. The
previous added to the on-going contamination processes by human causes, such as
terrible management of industrial waste or refuse which is continuously drop to
the sea or big lakes in several parts of the world as well in most of the
natural reservations all around the united states, phenomenon which is even
worse in third world countries, were law and policies for chemical or
industrial refuse are still not clear. Therefore, most of this contaminating
substances are spread everywhere threaten entire communities who lack of train
and knowledge about how to deal with the possible risk of consuming polluted
water. Climate change is another issue in this situation regarding, water and
hydrological sources, because water supplies in many countries around the world
have been reduced, inasmuch as rainy seasons are unreliable and weather tent to
change so often that every now and then it is unattainable to predict seasons
and to be ready to store water or to be ready to face a whole dry summer that
lately last too long. Safe
drinking water is essential. (2008, January 1) Finally, lacking of
words and fortunately not of water I just can cited Keats; - Here
lies one whose name was writ in water. Understanding that each one’s
death is not the end of this world, and that future generations will need water
as natural sources more than us. Therefore, the huge responsibility of take
good care of every natural source in this planet. Specially water.
Remembering the wise words of a famous singer, I
could state that I can imagine a world in peace, a world in pure contact with
nature, a world where people stop hating each other without reason; I can
imagine a word with no corruption at all, with equality and integration. But I just cannot imagine a word without
water falling from the sky running through my skin, making me feel alive in
this global society that every day seems to be a lot more death alive. Sadly, on
these days people spend too much time misusing water because they don’t know
how much it cost to find it pure. In consequence, I like to think in water as
hamlet used to thought in Ophelia, “a pure love” I like to thing in water as
Keats did “the beginning of a life” thus I like to think in water!
References
:
Marshall, T., & Cutraro, J. (n.d.). Water:
Teaching About the World’s Most Valuable Substance. Retrieved September 14,
2014, from http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/water-teaching-about-the-worlds-most-valuable-substance/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Safe drinking water is essential. (2008, January
1). Retrieved from http://www.drinking-water.org/html/en/About/index.html
