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What does it mean?
Water is vital yet used for dirty tasks, and the speaker resists drinking it.
In plain terms
Water is used for cleaning but the speaker refuses to drink it.
What can you take from it?
Even essential things can be treated with suspicion.

Where it applies

  • daily rituals
  • travel
  • food and drink

Putting it to work

  • question assumptions about basic needs
  • trust your senses

Questions to consider

  • When do you distrust essentials?
  • How does context change how we view things?

Another view

Clean water is usually safe to drink.

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