Water, water everywhere
March 25 2015. By Abi Giwa
(Courtesy: Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper)
Does this picture amuse or raises a serious question about the girl in the picture seen lapping from water in the stream?
She is well clad in a nice multi-colored long skirt and a light green blouse with a pair of clean brown shoes. There is no question about her sanity. Is there any?
But the question is about the type of thirst that will make a girl go on her kneels to lap for a running water. The answer to the question could be that she lacked a cup to scoop water form the stream, and she was so thirsty and had no choice than to do the needful - satisfy her thirst.
Apparently, the stream is far away from the town and she cannot wait to get to where she can get portable water.
Is there anything unhygienic drinking from a running stream? Certainly not if lessons from elementary science is anything to go by. But if it is a stationery water, the danger can be real.
The picture is a perfect reminder of a saying, "Water, water everywhere, and the board did shrink," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
She is well clad in a nice multi-colored long skirt and a light green blouse with a pair of clean brown shoes. There is no question about her sanity. Is there any?
But the question is about the type of thirst that will make a girl go on her kneels to lap for a running water. The answer to the question could be that she lacked a cup to scoop water form the stream, and she was so thirsty and had no choice than to do the needful - satisfy her thirst.
Apparently, the stream is far away from the town and she cannot wait to get to where she can get portable water.
Is there anything unhygienic drinking from a running stream? Certainly not if lessons from elementary science is anything to go by. But if it is a stationery water, the danger can be real.
The picture is a perfect reminder of a saying, "Water, water everywhere, and the board did shrink," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
