Drinking Water
"To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself."
- Masaru Emoto in "The Hidden Messages in Water" -
At the end of bike rally yesterday; lunch for about 2000 was served with warm bottles of water. Drinking the less than cool water parlayed into a discussion with my son about drinking water growing up on the farm in the 50s and 60s. Insulated coolers were not yet common enough to have made it to Paluxy Texas. We did have a flowing artesian well providing cool good water.
Mom would take a glass jar or jug and sew a layer or two of fabric around it. I seem to remember old jean legs were used sometimes. We would fill up the jugs with water at the flowing well an and then wet the outside fabric. This made a pretty effective evaporative water cooler for a few hours in the fields. The water would get warm at a much slower rate. We all shared the same jug with relatives, hired hands, visitors etc. No one thought twice about drinking directly from these jugs of water on hot summer days.
- Masaru Emoto in "The Hidden Messages in Water" -
At the end of bike rally yesterday; lunch for about 2000 was served with warm bottles of water. Drinking the less than cool water parlayed into a discussion with my son about drinking water growing up on the farm in the 50s and 60s. Insulated coolers were not yet common enough to have made it to Paluxy Texas. We did have a flowing artesian well providing cool good water.
Mom would take a glass jar or jug and sew a layer or two of fabric around it. I seem to remember old jean legs were used sometimes. We would fill up the jugs with water at the flowing well an and then wet the outside fabric. This made a pretty effective evaporative water cooler for a few hours in the fields. The water would get warm at a much slower rate. We all shared the same jug with relatives, hired hands, visitors etc. No one thought twice about drinking directly from these jugs of water on hot summer days.
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