In our 1st world, suburban lives today, it’s hard for us to grasp the importance of water in rural & traditional societies, especially in dry, hot, middle-eastern climates. Here, we have running water, on tap, thanks to the municipality, or your boer hole.  It costs you; but it’s available.  When’s the last time you had to worry if you might die of thirst?  Probably never. NOT SO in biblical times. If you couldn’t get access to water, your crops would fail, your flocks would perish, and you and your family would die…