Response due at the beginning of class 04/19.

My relationship with water isn't just about water for bathing, swimming, drinking. Water is also iconic and powerful imagery. Image links to video: Come as you are.
Yup, I want you this week to think about water and then write fairly detailed explanations of your diverse relationship with water. Here is the deal, we know water is precious, however, we often do not realize how important water has been in our life in more ways than sustaining us physically. Once we start to see how water is part of our social life, family vacations and more, we begin to realize how integral this resource is to humans in more than just drinking.
(1) Tell us about your history (relationship) with water? In other words, tell us about your relationship to water over the years. Some questions to consider when thinking about this question could be:
a. What was the drinking water like where you grew up? Did you parents teach you about drinking water? Were you on community water, well-water?
b. What was the recreational water sources like where you grew up/vacationed/traveled?
c. Where does your drinking water come from (the natural source)? If you don’t know the source of your drinking water, does that bother you that you don’t know?
d. Tell us any stories you have related to water in your life (i.e. gross water at your grandmother’s house (my grandma had soft water and it was gross, but what I didn’t realize when I was child was that her community water was treated through reverse osmosis.)
e. I would expect that this question about your history with water is rather extensive if you spend some time actually thinking about the role of water in your life over the past 20+ years. Please spend some thinking about this question and don’t just throw down a quick last minute answer.
(2) Tell us about your current relationship with water? Some questions to consider when answering this:
a. What water do you drink in Athens? Is it different than where you grew up?
b. Do you use bottled water as your main water source. Heck, do you even drink water (considering all those people that don’t really drink water because they drink juice, soda, sport drinks, etc..)?
c. Do you consume lots of water in a day where you live? Do your housemates consume lots of water in day? Does your bathing water use concern you?
d. As an independent adult have you changed your water habits recently? If so, how and why?
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