Prompted by an invite to view a certain blog page on"Water Footprint:&quot I must first lay some basic logic/philosophy. resources are never unlimited and hence can never be sustainable as in forever available. More accurately; once something has been consumed it never recovers its original state, although it's mutated form may still be a resource.

Before I get to the water, more on the philosophical logic. A form only becomes a resource by decision of intelligence, no matter how limited that intelligence is. It is a matter of logic that only the greatest of intelligence would achieve any 'sustainable use of a resource.

The philosophy is that people want to be happy to enjoy conciousness and bodily indulgences consume and destroy their surroundings on condition they have the power to do so. Great numbers have greater power and so the availability of resources to the masses becomes a topical and political issue. Hence the regulations of sustainability.

Note these are regulations on how to use, consume and destroy weaker people and creatures, plants and elementals to provide the users with the basics of shelter and food, and more often the luxuries that enhance our ego so that we feel strong as individuals. This individualistic egotistical struggle has no room for sentiment or sustainability for any objective, ethical or moral outcome but for self-satisfaction. It is know by many names but "ART" is a general term. Politics and administration ensure the proliferation of art, by making itself, an even less important goal, the top dog. By inverting the flow of thought the basics of shelter and food are secondary to the art of political fashion.

Along way from the water, but the deep as the well maybe only pure water can be drawn by a clean bucket which in turn can only be fashioned by a clear mind.

The extraction of water is a contentious issue as many would have sole rights to its availability.

A small diversion, this time. The water of rain is not a part of the extraction argument although a) whereas it is modified by non human it is the human part that we can adjust and b) the run off from land collection, as in agriculture can and most often is polluted with various toxins. This is where the growing of cotton, the instigator of this essay, conjoins.