Aquifers

Water is the most essential nutrient of life and God found a simple, but clever way to get it to us--via Aquifers. Aquifers are underground bodies of water. It is so simple, but pure genius.

The water is clean and drinkable because it has been filtered through the dirt. Think of it...God uses dirt to make water clean.

By putting the water underground, there are many advantages:

1) It stays cool in the summer and won't freeze in the winter.
2) It won't waste away via evaporation (as it would if exposed to the sun).
3) It gets water near us without having to build a lot of bridges to cross over it.
4) It's protected from a lot of surface polutants.
5) The water is there all the time, not just when it rains.
6) In the old days, the wells also provided a place for people to meet--encouraging social interaction.

Genesis 7:11 would seem to imply that before Noah and the flood, all the water came from these underground sources. It was a part of God's original creative design.

Compare God's simplicty to all of the complexity we use to store up and move water--big dams, leaky plumbing, massive purification plants and so on. God knows we need water, and he put it right under our feet--close, yet protected. What a God!