Water and human ingenuity: the flow of progress

Liquid intelligence has always been and remains the foundation of human civilisation

‘Thousands have lived without love, none without water.’
(W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden:
Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955)

There is no life without water. Yet, most of us remain indifferent to this fundamental reality.

We wake up each morning, turn on our taps to wet our toothbrushes, and perhaps slap some on our faces or take a gulp to wake us…