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A Lament of Water
Whilst in Assisi, at St Leonard's church, I met an international water consultant. we had a fascinating conversation about the almost universal waste of water in supply systems across the world - a situation that Italian-based engineer seeks to help remedy. The volume of wasted water felt to me to be at an almost unbelievable level of negligence, which I have tried to reflect in the following poem which my engineer friend has checked for accuracy - and for that, I am most grateful.
A Lament of Water
You seek me on far distant planets
Knowing I signal life.
Yet you who need me abuse me,
In hideous measure
Through ill-tended pipes.
At least one third of me, treated,
Ensuring I'm drinkably pure,
Is lost as I pass, through the mains, to a tap;
'Tis profligate! That's to be sure.
So whilst others struggle collecting
Me, trekking to worrying source,
You have no concern for what you can't see,
That from stricken pipeworks
I constantly burst.
Another poem about Water can be found at The Wonder of Water
