Key to life.

Yet the water is murky and was said to be condemned and you were not supposed to eat any fish that came from it or go swimming in it. It is next to the dog park and they share a stream. After they found many accounts of dead or mutated fish they had to dredge the lake, I remember it to be a very unpleasant smell.

-Kate Nootz

The reason I chose this particular quote is two fold; I wanted to pick something that pertained to the project that we have coming up in this class, as I have almost no Idea what I'm going to do for mine. Kate chose to go to a park, sort of cliche in it's roots but it's an understandable choice. Second as I thought about the lake the first thing I thought of was swimming, I'm an avid swimmer, I swim probably 4 days a week, it's common place to me. It made me think about how much of a role water plays on humans, though my point is obvious and trite, when you actually think about it it's still crazy. Almost everything that comes from the water is beneficial to life.

Swimming preserves your joints and works you harder than most other forms of excercise. It's necessary for almost all forms of cooking. Food from the water is has the highest amino acid and fatty acid content in the world, these are essential building blocks of life, no organism exists without them. Life on this planet has been scientifically backed that it began in the water the first complex organisms were only able to develop in the water. Enough Science.
Since man came to be from water why is it that man treats the water as he does. The first places that man resulted to for landfills were bodies of water. Maybe it's due to the face that if something is assimilated in a vast body of water people think that whatever they offer it will just disappear indefinitely. But this isn't usually the case. To trash a lake is almost like destroying mankind. If for some reason all bodies of water were to become condemned all people would die eventually. Water should be the first thing we respect. There is a reason that the Egyptians, Greeks/Romans, and Norse all had gods whose soul function was the control of water, It is a god in it's own right and should be respected as such.