A glass of water is the most democratic luxury on earth. Turn a tap in much of the world and you get something humans spent millennia walking miles to fetch, fighting wars over, and dying without. Clean, cold, unlimited, it arrives with less effort than standing up.
We've made it so mundane we forget it's a miracle of infrastructure: treatment plants, pipes, pressure systems, quality testing. Entire civilizations rose and fell based on access to what now flows while you brush your teeth. The same molecule you're drinking has been a dinosaur's breakfast, a cloud over ancient Rome, part of every ocean. It cycles endlessly, purified by the planet itself, then by engineers who made it safe.
Water asks nothing of you, no preparation, no acquisition cost in most places, no complexity. It just works, solving thirst, headaches, hangovers, and half of what ails you with chemical simplicity: two hydrogens, one oxygen, pure function.
