H/2 O. WATER.

WATER

Water is said to have come in existence million years ago, due to process of condensation of vapor. Water is nectar. Life could not exist without water on earth.

Our Scriptures make reference to water as sacred. River Ganga was brought unto earth by sage Bhagirath to meet with the demand of water on earth.

The Saraswati river is referred in the RigVeda more than 60 times. It is one of the seven sacred rivers Sapt Sindhu. Until recently, scholars considered the river to be mythical.

The Saraswati sprang from Himalayan glaciers in Har-ki-dun in Uttaranchal and emerged at Adi Badri, 30 km. north of Jagadhri, through the foothills of the Shiwalik ranges. The river at its peak was between 5 to 7 miles wide at its widest point and traversed a distance of over 1000 miles through Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan to reach Sindhu Sagara,  the Arabian Sea at Prabhas Patan Somnath,Gujarat.

Then, between 6000 BC and 4000 BC, tectonic changes caused river-migration and the desiccation of the river. It was completely dry by approximately 2000 BC.

The river had its origin at least as early as 12000 years BC.

Considering that the Rig-Veda mentions the river so frequently, it stands that the river must have been in its peak years. This implies that the Rig Veda must have been conceived in its present form between 12000 BC and 6000 BC.

The reference the water life cycle

Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; 
from the sun it descends in rain, 
from the rains are born the plants, 
from the plants, are the animals and humans.

The huge volume of water contained in the oceans, seas rivers has been produced during the geologic history of the Earth. There is little information on the early history of the Earth's waters. The presence of water on the Earth at even earlier times is not documented by physical evidence. The early atmosphere is thought to have been highly rich in gases, notably in hydrogen, and to generate water vapor with reaction of oxygen.

The Earth's surface temperature and the partial pressures of the individual gases in the early atmosphere affected the atmosphere's equilibration with the terrestrial surface. Thus water in liquid form accumulated in isolated depressions of the Earth's surface, forming oceans.

Life originated in the oceans, and the chemical composition of body fluids in land animals reflects their primeval origin. The dependence of life on water is a must and  it is the major constituent of plant and animal cells. Most of the major groups of animals still live in water, a relatively small number have adapted to life on dry land.