Fresh Water

Fresh water is a rare resource in this great orb of blue but needed for survival by the folk like me and you We use it in some foolish ways as though we never see that it can end by over use which leaves us water free We use it to flush all our wastes and cultivate our crop we wash our autos, fight our fires, and watch the levels drop we fight each other for enough to do just what we need not caring if there's nothing left for others, due to greed We don't collect the water when it falls out of the sky we need to catch it for the days when everything is dry we should store up the water which would run into the sea with little treatment it is good to use for brewing tea We bathe in water from the tap that we could even drink we give it to our household plants and never even think that they could use some water not quite good enough for us and water that's not potable is better for a flush A small change in our piping may be all we really need to get a less fresh water there for watering our seed eventually we'll thank the Company who sets it up because we'll have fresh water still for filling up our cup