Water in Tradition
Water for life
Big Water Small Return
Water needed to produce food to feed itself and protect its livelihood
Small Water Big Return
Water needed for a set of uses: drinking, domestic use, industry and services, and non agricultural purposes
Real Water
Liquid substance
Virtual Water
Fresh water needed to produce a product/ commodity. 1 cup of coffee of 125 ml has a value of 140 litres of virtual water.
Virtues of Water
Water as the way of nature
Water is in constant motion, flowing from the ground and into larger bodies of water to become great lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Water flows in one direction; it flows downward to lower places and never flows upward
Water Brings About Good
Water refreshes dry lands and sustains all life, yet it does not boast of its merits.
No gate or wall, no matter how strong or mighty it may, can ever confine water.
Water is Gentle and Humility
Gentleness sustains life, and flexibility leads to coexistence in various surrounding.
Rivers and seas are the kings of the streams because they know how to keep themselves below.
Water overcomes the Strong
Water is gentle and weak, yet flows over the strongest and most highly resistant objects.
In the whole world, there is nothing softer and weaker than water. And yet nothing measures up to it in the way it works upon that which is hard. Nothing can change it.
Water is Justice
Water cannot maintain both high and low points, it constantly achieves a state of equilibrium with a smooth line.
Water is Pure
Water undergoes a natural process of purification, where the deposits sink to the bottom and separate themselves from the clean water above.
Water is Like the Heart
Clean water is like the heart of an individual who is free of selfish ambitions and worldly clutter.
Only still and clean waters allow us to see clearly into the water, and only still and clean hearts are able to have an objective and progressive outlook.
Water as a subject in itself
TO LEARN ABOUT Water in Tradition
What is Water
What is Traditions
Various implementation of water in traditions
Water into other subjects
TO LEARN WATER THROUGH OTHER SUBJECT/TOPIC (in the topic of tradition – multicultural tradition, or others)
Analysis of other subject/topic which can accommodate the integration of value of water in a tradition
Other subjects through Water (as a subject)
TO LEARN OTHER SUBJECT/TOPIC
Analysis of water in tradition to accommodate the integration of other topics