The Color of Water

What color is water? It is a question that many children ask, not to mention adults, and the answer is invariably that it has no color. It is transparent, clear, see through. Is that answer the correct one? Image Credit Flickr User Chaval Brasil Image Credit Flickr User Capn Mad MattTake a look at that lovely cool wine glass of water above. Looks refreshing and thirst quenching, yes? No? Let me take a look. Oh dear! Well, disregard the goldfish if you can but the water is colorless, right? Wrong. The water does have color but it is not something that the human eye can see when H2O is present in such small quantities. Image Credit Flickr User NASA GoddardIn order to see the real color of water we must take a look at a large body. By large body, we do not mean Arnold Schwarzenegger, but a place where a great volume of water can be looked through or down into. It can be done scientifically as well, but the human eye can see the intrinsic color of water in the right conditions. You may…