The cultural significance of water cannot be underestimated. Important for health and hygiene, of course, our relationship with water has never been entirely practical. Water holds a significance to the human psyche such that some have even speculated on some marine origin to the human species, in ironic contrast to our known origins as creatures of the African plains where open bodies of water were often a source of danger. All the great civilizations of antiquity have been characterized by their control and use of water, the ability to bring water great distances and into the individual home or to use it for decorative fountains and waterfalls or in large communal baths key signs of their sophistication. Long ago the shower superseded the bath as the most practical means of cleansing the