Water...

Abstract

Water is the central theme of this Revista da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais issue. Seen from several points of view, water is essential to life and a compounding element of our planet. Water is a common good, a collective use value around which knowledge, cults, and habits have been created and organized; it is the cradle of history, source of inspiration to literature, music and many other forms of artistic manifestations. [...]