What I'm grateful for today

[Stuart G]

8. I am grateful today for getting up reasonably healthy, and also for...

running water, flush toilets, and the running water is clean, pure and totally drinkable.

125 years ago, the water in the area I live was not clean. There was some kind of epidemic that killed thousands of people due to unclean water.. You can read about it in history, but the purification of our drinking water, probably, (no I do not know for sure) has done more to increase lifespan than anything else..

The very first thing that people need after a catastrophe like a tornado, earthquake, etc. is clean drinkable water. And after that, clean sanitation facilities where people can poop & pee without hurting the water supply and the rest of the environment. Most people...like me, take these everyday gifts that we have for granted. We have gifts that were totally fiction one hundred fifty years ago. We are blessed. Oh, I forgot one. Electricity used to operate machines, (like the one I am using now) and water treatment centers, and all the other stuff we depend on for good health. 150 years no one knew how much good electricity could do for all of us...In fact, most people in the world didn't even know what it is.

............ Hope you are well.......