{"id":284103,"date":"2026-03-23T00:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=284103"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:40:33","slug":"march-22nd-is-world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/march-22nd-is-world-water-day\/","title":{"rendered":"March 22 is World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All over the world people talk to water, touch it, pray to it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayers in sacred rivers in Tibet, purification rituals in the Ganges in India, wishes and offerings left in springs on H\u0131drellez in Anatolia...<\/p>\n<p>They all whisper the same thing: cleanse, renew, love, believe, believe, understand, forgive, connect, be human and stay human.<\/p>\n<p>Although these rituals span thousands of kilometers, they share a common theme: purification, rebirth, spiritual renewal.<\/p>\n<p>This ancient relationship that humanity has established with water is not only a need; it is also a form of remembering. It is an effort to trace what has been forgotten, polluted and lost.<\/p>\n<p>And today, March 22nd is World Water Day.<\/p>\n<p>It is an opportunity to heed this silent call, to remember the water and ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this day is an opportunity to remember what we pollute.<\/p>\n<p>Because the relationship we have with water is actually the most naked form of the relationship we have with each other.<\/p>\n<p>He who pollutes the water pollutes the word and the essence.<\/p>\n<p>Water always whispers to us with its beautiful voice; life, purification, rebirth...<\/p>\n<p>And we sometimes respond with our rituals, with our words.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the offering of water in this geography is like the prayer of a repeated ritual: \u201cMay you be sainted like water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it is the wish that the person be as precious, clean, respected and sacred as water.<\/p>\n<p>But we have polluted the water and the word.<\/p>\n<p>Because water is not only the source of life, it is life itself; every drop carries the story of nature and human beings.<\/p>\n<p>And water is life itself.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00fcnya y\u00fczeyinin yakla\u015f\u0131k %70\u201375\u2019i sularla kapl\u0131d\u0131r; belki de bu y\u00fczden gezegenimize \u201cMavi Gezegen\u201d denir.<\/p>\n<p>Yeni do\u011fmu\u015f bir bebe\u011fin v\u00fccudu da yakla\u015f\u0131k %75 sudan olu\u015fur; eri\u015fkinlerde bu oran %60 civar\u0131ndad\u0131r.<\/p>\n<p>So, is water just an inanimate substance?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it made of crystals that can perceive emotions, that can be affected by their environment?<\/p>\n<p>This curiosity has also mobilized researchers trying to unravel the secrets of water<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept of \u201dwater memory\u2019 first came to the fore in 1988 with French scientist Jacques Benveniste.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, water could carry the \u201cknowledge\u201d of the substances it came into contact with.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto conducted a very interesting experiment, claiming that water reacts to the thoughts and emotions around it:<\/p>\n<p>He left a glass of water in a room full of loving words.<\/p>\n<p>Another glass of water into an environment where anger, insults and hatred circulate.<\/p>\n<p>Then he froze the water.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at the crystals under a microscope.<\/p>\n<p>The water, allegedly spoken with love, blossomed like crystal.<\/p>\n<p>Symmetrical, elegant, almost as beautiful as a snowflake.<\/p>\n<p>The water spoken of with hatred had dissipated.<\/p>\n<p>Shapeless, broken, distorted.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it was a research claiming that water is affected by energies such as human thoughts, words and music, and that it changes its crystal structure by \u201cmemorizing\u201d this information.<\/p>\n<p>While the scientific world has been wary of claims by the likes of Jacques Benveniste and Masaru Emoto that water has memory and responds to human emotions, there were traces of these controversial experiments suggesting that water is not just a chemical entity, but perhaps has a deeper interaction that has yet to be fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, science is still trying to understand the memory of water.<\/p>\n<p>But we have already managed, without realizing it, to leave a mark on each other's memory with our words and to pollute it.<\/p>\n<p>Let's think<\/p>\n<p>If even water is affected by the words of its environment,<\/p>\n<p>what words shape a person?<\/p>\n<p>We make each other drink words every day.<\/p>\n<p>But these words are no longer clear as water.<\/p>\n<p>It does not purify. It does not cleanse.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, it poisons.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the slightest insult said to a child.<\/p>\n<p>The scorn whispered in a woman's ear.<\/p>\n<p>Those heavy, invisible insults to a person's identity.<\/p>\n<p>These are all words spoken to the water that makes up the human body.<\/p>\n<p>And if words give shape to water?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that's why the crystals inside people are distorted.<\/p>\n<p>It became disorganized. It became ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the water in the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Because the water that makes us up is encountering wars, deaths, blood, violence and hatred every day, every day it is polluted again. Insult replaces love, anger replaces understanding, noise replaces conscience...<\/p>\n<p>Truth is replaced by simple repetitive propaganda, eloquence is replaced by insults, humanity is replaced by crowded and callous masses...<\/p>\n<p>And then we are surprised:<\/p>\n<p>Why have we become such a fragmented, such a wounded society?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the answer is simpler than we think.<\/p>\n<p>We have been giving each other bad words for years.<\/p>\n<p>And we forget<\/p>\n<p>Man's soul is water, his spirit is crystal.<\/p>\n<p>If the magic of words leaves a trace in the memory of water, and if approximately 60-70 percent of the being we call human being is composed of water, then there is a question we need to ask ourselves:<\/p>\n<p>Those words we say to each other, whisper to ourselves, direct at others and are exposed to hearing every day...<\/p>\n<p>Is it because it affects us so deeply that our soul is sometimes sparkling like crystal and sometimes shattered?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the issue is simpler than we think.<\/p>\n<p>The earth is largely made of water. So is man.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe this is the reason why the world has not been free of evil for so long:<\/p>\n<p>We say to each other not words that give life like water, but words that leave ice cuts in our souls.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps the most painful thing is this:<\/p>\n<p>No one tells anyone to \u201cbe as saintly as water\u201d anymore.<\/p>\n<p>So, how much is the sap of the being we call human being affected by the magic of words?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If even water is affected by the words of its environment, what words shape a human being?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":284105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-284103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284106,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284103\/revisions\/284106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}