Does water have color?

United States
October 28, 2006 11:16am CST
or are all those paintings with blue water flowing just wrong?
6 responses
ishavasyam
@ishavasyam (1801)
• India
28 Oct 06
Water does have colour dear friend...not seen flood waters ?
indianjokester
@indianjokester (24)
• United States
28 Oct 06
well, im not completely sure. If water does have a color then why is water in a glass clear?
Ynefz0r
@Ynefz0r (832)
• Finland
28 Oct 06
You guys can't really be that dumb? No offence... but when there's a FLOOD then the water takes all of the little sand and mud within and just flows it around the place... that's why it looks brown and ugly. Because it has little pieces of mud and sand and other crap inside it. The water in the glass is clear because it has no garbage floating in it.... *sigh*
ozzieblackcat
@ozzieblackcat (531)
• United States
28 Oct 06
I believe that water itself does not have color but the surroundings of the water give it color. If a pool is painted blue it looks blue, if the water is dirty it looks brown. It there are lots of clouds it looks grey and if there are lots of trees around it looks greenish. The sun probably has something to do with how the color appear too. I'll be waiting for someone to tell me I'm all wet. Ha!
Ynefz0r
@Ynefz0r (832)
• Finland
28 Oct 06
You are on the right track at least, thank you for this lol:D Yeah you could say it that way... we see colours only because of the sun (the light) when there is no light we can't see any colours. Light reflects from objects into our eye generating the picture in out brain. And colours...
DeenaD
@DeenaD (2684)
• United States
28 Oct 06
I think that water just kind of relects the color of the light that is around it. Most of the time, it reflects the sky, so it appears blue.
istanto
@istanto (8548)
• Indonesia
29 Oct 06
I think water has no color on it. it deppend on location of water it will be tranpalant the location near the water. basically its like a mirror when you put mirror in the red room look's like the mirror have red color.
Tanya8
@Tanya8 (1733)
• Canada
28 Oct 06
I learned in high-school that water DOES have a a color, but you don't percieve it unless you have a large enough quantity. Here's an article that discusses it: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~etrnsfer/water.htm
Ynefz0r
@Ynefz0r (832)
• Finland
28 Oct 06
Clean water has no colour. If it's dirty or has stuff floating in it then it's green or something. Like in the sea... or ponds.