Many of us take water for granted, after all, it covers about 71% of the Earths surface in the form of oceans, lakes and rivers. Strangely enough, our bodies contain pretty much the same ratio.
The atmosphere also contains water in the form of water vapor. Although it only accounts for roughly about 0.001% that is still about 12,900 cubic kilometers of water. Imagine a cube 23.4 kilometers on each side. That is a lot of water!
There is also a substantial amount of water locked up in the Earths crust. It has been theorized that Earths mantle may contain as much water as all the oceans on our planet.

Pure water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The formula being H20.
If we think about this then logically it must mean the very early universe was void of water. Hydrogen existed just after the "Big Bang", but Oxygen did not exist at this time. Oxygen was formed in stars and supernovas. So water probably didn't happen until the first stars died and created oxygen. Now the playing field was set for the universe to create water!

Water is known as a universal solvent because of its ability to dissolve many other substances.
It can exist as a gas, a liquid, a supercritical fluid, and a solid. It is one of only a few molecules that has this ability. Most other molecules contract when they get cold but water expands creating ice and snow. This is the reason ice cubes float in your drinks, because once expanded it has a lower density than liquid water.
Some other substances that expand on freezing are silicon, gallium, germanium, bismuth, plutonium and also chemical compounds that form spacious crystal lattices.

If the pressure on ice is increased it undergoes a number of transitions to other allotropic forms with higher density than liquid water, such as ice II, ice III, high-density amorphous ice (HDA), and very-high-density amorphous ice (VHDA).
Because ice has these strange properties it is able to freeze on the surface of a body of water, whether it is the sea or lakes or rivers. These special properties of water are what stops a lake from freezing completely to the bottom. Otherwise there would be no life left in the water as it would be frozen also.

Water also exhibits capillary action that is due to the forces of adhesion and surface tension. This is very important to life and especially plants. Plants use this capillary action to draw water up inside of it using the xylem(long narrow tubes within the plants stem) and it defies gravity raising well above until there is enough water that gravity balances the adhesive force.

One of the most mysterious properties of water is that it may be linked to our own consciousness. Now this sounds very strange, but there have been experiments conducted that seem to point in this direction.
Dr. Masaru Emoto in Japan was a pioneer and what he did was take different samples of water and played music, spoke to, showed videos and pictures to these samples. He then crystalized the water and took pictures of the crystals. The results were simply amazing!
Our thoughts seem to have a physical interaction with the water!
I find this, perhaps the most amazing property of water. If our thoughts can do this to water then imagine how our thoughts can effect our bodies, which are mainly water!

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