Though literal water is essential for sustaining life on earth, Jesus had in mind a different type of water when he said to a Samaritan woman at a well Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life
अर्थात, पृथ्वीवरील जीवनासाठी पाणी अतिशय महत्त्वाचे आहे.