This Journal AWWA monthly column offers sometimes tongue in cheek musings about issues, trends, politics and events as they relate to both AWWA and the water industry in general. This month's column talks about: a proposed “Action Now” program; the 25th anniversary of fluoridation; the federal government's desalting program; political negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States over ocean waters; the father of the modern toilet, Thomas Crapper; and, poetry regarding the power of water.