The taste of water

Who knew water had a specific taste? Gertrude. After we traveled to another city, the first thing she did when we returned to Buffalo was to have a big glass of Buffalo tap water. She said it tasted so good, better than any other city’s water supply. This was back in the 1950’s long before bottled water from Fiji. I do not think she would approve of water in a plastic bottle from some special spring in Tim-buck-too.

I still remember the wonderful taste of water from the garden hose on a hot sweaty summer day.

Yes, water does have different tastes and I noticed it when I visited different places. Water near the ocean is salty or brackish. Some cities have a chemical or a chlorine taste. Well water has a distinct taste of the minerals of the soil around it. But water is so essential. We take it for granted here in the USA. I spent 2 months on medical mission work in Nairobi and would have died if the Nuns had not boiled the water for us to drink. In Africa and other places in the world water is a precious commodity.

As I get older I realize that we take too much for granted.