Northern water snake The belly also varies in color. It can be white, yellow, or gray. Usually it also has reddish or black crescents. The northern water snake is nonvenomous and harmless to humans, but superficially resembles the venomous cottonmouth and is often killed unnecessarily as a result of this mistaken identity. The two can be easily distinguished by morphological traits: the water snake has a longer, more slender body and a flattened head the same width as the neck, round pupils, and no heat-sensing pits. The cottonmouth has a fatter body, a wedge-shaped head with prominent venom glands that are wider than
What the Water Gave Me (song) and Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays. "The Sun"s Gordon Smart concluded that the song "sounds more polished with rock guitars alongside a bit of the obligatory harp". Commenting the sound of the song, Jillian Mapes of "Billboard" said that "'What the Water Gave Me' crescendos with a tribal intensity, balancing chants against an airy, whimsical harp". "Spin"s William Goodman called the song "a surge of gospel-tinged pop with harp, piano, and throbbing bass driving under Welch's powerful vocals" Writing for the website HitFix, Katie Hasty said: "the harp line is just about the lightest part of the song, as the