Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
