My physics book says water is colourless and claims I can test this by dipping a pint glass in the canal, extracting a sample and letting it settle. Mostly the liquid will, it sez, come 'clear' when 'impurities' have floated to the top or fallen to the bottom.
If you like nerdy misdirection look up "mixture" and "solution" to find out why canal water is both.
Otherwise
This is not a lesson in microbiology;
it is about the colour of water as observed from the deck of my canal boat rather than from a glass darkly. I live on a boat and float on the canals of England. Looking out at the surface of what floats my boat, it is almost always MUDDY and BROWN. Why is canal water invariably muddy or brown or black with viewed from Pentargon's deck?
This book is called Muddy Brown Water because if I had known the answer to the mucky puzzle I might never have started writing it. I am conjoined to nature and especially to water and I live a simple life. I eat simple food. I do not drink the canal water. Nor do I wash in it. But I am happy to live on it and be borne by it. I observe. I record, I review. I report and I ask simple questions.
Why has liquidity nothing to do with water or canals?
If you like nerdy misdirection look up "mixture" and "solution" to find out why canal water is both.
Otherwise
This is not a lesson in microbiology;
it is about the colour of water as observed from the deck of my canal boat rather than from a glass darkly. I live on a boat and float on the canals of England. Looking out at the surface of what floats my boat, it is almost always MUDDY and BROWN. Why is canal water invariably muddy or brown or black with viewed from Pentargon's deck?
This book is called Muddy Brown Water because if I had known the answer to the mucky puzzle I might never have started writing it. I am conjoined to nature and especially to water and I live a simple life. I eat simple food. I do not drink the canal water. Nor do I wash in it. But I am happy to live on it and be borne by it. I observe. I record, I review. I report and I ask simple questions.
Why has liquidity nothing to do with water or canals?
