Drinkable Streams

“I am from up in the hills in India, below the source of the Ganges, below the mountains, foothills, deep forested valleys, and lots of rivers. Summers were spent in the mountains, and winters in the forests and the rivers. What we enjoyed most as children was to be able to sort of fling ones head into the river and drink water just like an animal without fear of being infected by any of the things that are now contaminating our water. Fast flowing water especially, which is the water that gives life. Of which I believe there are only seven places left on the earth that oxygenates itself and doesn't need to go into a factory to get water to be potable . . . I remember almost all types of streams, right from the high mountains, right down to the foothills, where the river sort of having an energetic flow to becoming a languid, tranquil river flowing slowly all the way down to dead. But where the rivers slowed, the water was always suspect due to too much population and too much livestock . . ."