Out in the middle of the water, he would submerge his imposing frame until only his Gill-Man eyes and nostrils showed above the surface.
The middle class is still treading water, and those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning.
The development project, supported by South African billionaire Sol Kerzner, includes what is touted as the Middle East's largest water park and an aquarium of 65, 000 fish.
Insufficient government investment in water infrastructure has led farmers, middle-class urbanites, and industry alike to use tubewells to supply their own water.
That he stopped in the middle to take a drink of water, and that he gave a version in Spanish.
Northern Ireland Water has said it expects most homes in NI to have their water restored by the middle of next week.
Sometimes I swam out to the middle and stayed there, treading water, listening to the quiet that surrounded me, a hiatus in the air, like a held breath.
There are predictions that countries such as India, China, and parts of the Middle East will run out of water and that wars will break out over supplies.
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Along with the benefits of urbanization, including lower environmental impact, come challenges such as how to provide large, dense and growing populations with clean water for a growing middle-class with corresponding expectations.
And with a little judicious planning ahead of time to raise the plastic in the middle of the yard so the water runs out to the sides into the shrubbery and gutters and things like that, you can conceivably keep the ground dry.
Regions of serious water deficit such as the Middle East became so in about 1970, at a favourable moment for them in economic history.
While China's leaders know that, historically, challenges to Beijing's power come from the countryside, it is in the many smog-ridden, traffic-clogged, dirty-water cities that a rising middle class may find political voice around the quality of urban life.
How many of us have stopped to think that one key to Islamic history is that the Turks control the sources of the two great rivers of the region, the Euphrates and the Tigris or know of the vast new Southeast Anatolia Project that has dammed those rivers and changed the shape, and the water politics, of the Middle East?
Desalination technology has historically been more widely embraced by countries with scarce water resources, such as the Middle East.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
To recover from its 11 years under the sanctions battering-ram which has crushed the country's industrial and agricultural infrastructure, its water system, education and the middle classes Iraq needs the freedom, and overseas investment, of a huge reconstruction effort.
For a decade or more, middle-class families felt like they were treading water, that they were losing ground.
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By the middle of the month, electricity had returned and water was running into the hotel bathroom taps again.
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And so, instead of being confronted with a sudden crisis that prompts real change, South Africa appears to be drifting - sustained by an expanding middle class and buoyant local economy - while the water in the pot keeps getting steadily hotter.
As China is growing a middle class, the middle class has expectations of cleaner air, safe drinking water, and baby food that is good.
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Its initial focus is on five global issues that, if unchecked, could bring the world to its knees: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict.
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Nothing quite matches Hong Kong from above, but it is difficult to get things wrong with mountains on one side, water on the other and skyscrapers in the middle to provide the platform.
By the second half of the Middle Ages (1000-1500 AD) the wind and water-powered agarian revolution of the previous few centuries made Christian Europe into a rich, populous and expanding power.
As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.
The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.
Before retiring Mr Pim worked on water supply and irrigation projects in deserts, mainly in the Middle East.
However, with very warm water near the U.S. coast for the early and middle part of the season, fewer storms does not necessarily mean less of a challenge.
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Still, the book gives readers important perspective on where mistakes have been made and where problems are likely to arise in the future, like the Middle East, which de Villiers pegs as most likely to wage war over water.
The Middle East is the likeliest place to see the author's much-touted water wars.
It predicts a rising global middle class, urban density increases, 50 percent growth in demand for food, water and energy, among many other results.
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