For the People: Two Birds, One Stone & Water
Let's get formalities out of the way first, shall we?
Every history lesson could use a bit of "today" injected into it. To keep the lesson relevant. To keep the"why does this matter" or the "how does this apply to our society today" questions at bay.
So to answer those valid but rather constant and sometimes frustrated queries, expect to see a post similar to this one with each week's regular posting schedule. It will always begin with "For the People" and have a correlation, in some way, to the topic of the week and current events (news/media worthy stuff), depending. If the topic is rather absent among most media outlets, then the post will serve as a bridge between our "Into the Archive" posts and the "Feature Question of the Week", along with the weekly trivia posts and feature answer. A stepping stone of sorts, to help our readers make sense of the direction we're taking with a chosen topic.
Now that that is out of the way, we can get to the task at hand.
In our last post (Into the Archives post, "Taken for Granted"), we pondered where society would be if not for the accomplishments of those history has cheated or long since forgotten. The makers of everyday things we don't give a second thought about having at our disposal.
Following that same vein, in this chapter we're going to explore basic human survival essentials and how, over the course of history, we've come to develop such technological advancements that have since made those most basic needs less like essentials and more like commodities. And of course those that were responsible for those advancements.
You know, to give credit where credit is due.
I think we can all agree that there are three main "musts" to life, however, that being food, water and shelter. Without any one or a combination of those things, we cannot face the elements and on a much grander scale, would cease to exist as a whole.
To kick off the first stream (ha, foreshadowing pun) of this week's posts, we're going to narrow our historical topics to water.
Read on!
xoxo,
LittleGypsyRed
