Mohammad Taleghani*, Mohammadreza Jabreilzadeh Sola and Ataollah Taleghani
This study reflects the new concern with water as an essential force in all of life. Too little water means death, and too much
water can have the same effect. Humans need good drinking water, and all cultural history has already confirmed the essential
function of water. Living in the Anthropocene today, taking care of water and respecting nature’s resources, both from a
historical-literary and a natural-scientific perspective constitutes a conditio sine qua non for our future. Studying medieval and
early modern writers’ and artists’ stance toward water provides us with a critically important discursive platform to understand
the relationship between people and their natural environment in deep terms, uncovering the history of water awareness as it
still affects us today.