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The historical roots of the Hydration Society spring from the dynamic environment of the early-middle 19th century AD, a time of unprecedented openness and change when Kiravian society was {{wp|expansionism|diversifying its geographic footprint}} and forming an intricate network of {{wp|imperialism|interrelationships with other lands and peoples}} around the globe. Kiravians at the forefront of these transformative events often found themselves living and working for extended periods in unfamiliar tropical and arid climates to which they were not well-acclimated, observably impacting their health and performance. Military doctors noted the vulnerability of Kiravian soldiers to dehydration and related ailments (e.g. {{wp|heat exhaustion}}, {{wp|sunstroke}}) in the field, but were also wary of local water supplies, which they recognised as often being {{wp|Waterborne diseases|reservoirs of disease}} in their own right. This initial problematisation of hydration triggered a process of {{wp|organizational learning|organisational learning}} for the Kiravian military and private-sector enterprises such as the [[Bay Trading Company]] in which these institutions would approach hydration in a scientific manner for the first time. As the Kiravian government and leading commercial concerns deepened their engagement with [[South Crona]], [[Vallos]], and similar regions in the form of permanent settlements and longer-term deployments, the issue of hydration became increasingly externalised, and stimulating the grassroots formation of voluntary civic groups active in the hydration space, working to ensure clean, reliable supplies of water to Kiravian troops and transplanted communities. Women were particularly prominent in such groups, many of which were outgrowths of officers' wives clubs. | The historical roots of the Hydration Society spring from the dynamic environment of the early-middle 19th century AD, a time of unprecedented openness and change when Kiravian society was {{wp|expansionism|diversifying its geographic footprint}} and forming an intricate network of {{wp|imperialism|interrelationships with other lands and peoples}} around the globe. Kiravians at the forefront of these transformative events often found themselves living and working for extended periods in unfamiliar tropical and arid climates to which they were not well-acclimated, observably impacting their health and performance. Military doctors noted the vulnerability of Kiravian soldiers to dehydration and related ailments (e.g. {{wp|heat exhaustion}}, {{wp|sunstroke}}) in the field, but were also wary of local water supplies, which they recognised as often being {{wp|Waterborne diseases|reservoirs of disease}} in their own right. This initial problematisation of hydration triggered a process of {{wp|organizational learning|organisational learning}} for the Kiravian military and private-sector enterprises such as the [[Bay Trading Company]] in which these institutions would approach hydration in a scientific manner for the first time. As the Kiravian government and leading commercial concerns deepened their engagement with [[South Crona]], [[Vallos]], and similar regions in the form of permanent settlements and longer-term deployments, the issue of hydration became increasingly externalised, and stimulating the grassroots formation of voluntary civic groups active in the hydration space, working to ensure clean, reliable supplies of water to Kiravian troops and transplanted communities. Women were particularly prominent in such groups, many of which were outgrowths of officers' wives clubs. | ||
In 1862, regional confederations of water-supply societies from across the South Crona and Vallos-Kindreds regions dispatched delegates to a conference in [[ | In 1862, regional confederations of water-supply societies from across the South Crona and Vallos-Kindreds regions dispatched delegates to a conference in [[Cape Town]], where they agreed to form the '''All-Colonial Aquarian Committee''' to bring greater attention to their causes and needs from the press and the Kiravian government. Emerging technologies such as the {{wp|Submarine communications cable|underwater telegraph cable}} were instrumental in facilitating coöperation between groups in the colonies and in the metropole, spawning partner societies in Great Kirav and the temperate colonies (e.g. [[Porfíria]], [[Atrassica]]) that worked to raise funds in support of their overseas compatriots' health. As the century wore on, popular interest in both personal and public health grew, and with this came greater attention to the health benefits of lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise. These trends caused many hydration societies in the cooler and more humid climes to turn some of their effort toward the home front, educating their neighbours on the importance of regular hydration and the merits of fresh water over beverages such as {{wp|coffee}}, {{wp|cola}}, and the ubiquitous {{wp|table beer}}. In 1911 AD, a coterie of prominent [[Valēka]]-based philanthropists drawn from the crème of the city's industrialist and mercantile élite who were involved with such causes came together to found the '''Hydration Society of Great Kirav and Colonies'''. | ||
During the [[Kiravian Civil War]], like the rest of Kiravian society, the hydration movement was torn asunder along factional lines, with local committees falling in behind either the Federalist or Socialist sides (sometimes splintering in the process) and working closely with other voluntary {{wp|All-Russian_Zemstvo_Union|soldier-support groups}} to keep their side's troops hydrated on the front lines. When Valēka fell to the Socialist forces, the bourgeois personages staffing the Hydration Society of Great Kirav and Colonies national body mostly fled (if they had not already) to the overseas colonies that would soon become the [[Kiravian Remnant]]. The Hydration Society would formally reconstitute itself in exile in the {{wp|hill station}} of Téhama, [[South Æonara]] in 1937. Most local committees remaining on the Mainland under the rule of the Kiravian [[Union]] were subordinated to the Union of Workers' and Peasants' Hydration Councils. | During the [[Kiravian Civil War]], like the rest of Kiravian society, the hydration movement was torn asunder along factional lines, with local committees falling in behind either the Federalist or Socialist sides (sometimes splintering in the process) and working closely with other voluntary {{wp|All-Russian_Zemstvo_Union|soldier-support groups}} to keep their side's troops hydrated on the front lines. When Valēka fell to the Socialist forces, the bourgeois personages staffing the Hydration Society of Great Kirav and Colonies national body mostly fled (if they had not already) to the overseas colonies that would soon become the [[Kiravian Remnant]]. The Hydration Society would formally reconstitute itself in exile in the {{wp|hill station}} of Téhama, [[South Æonara]] in 1937. Most local committees remaining on the Mainland under the rule of the Kiravian [[Union]] were subordinated to the Union of Workers' and Peasants' Hydration Councils. | ||