Which functions of water in living systems would still be possible if water was not polar and did not form hydrogen bonds

Water would still be used in industrial manufacture of Hydrogen,by electrolysis

Also would still be used in photosynthesis by making hydrogen ion and free electrons also oxygen by photolysis process

wavelength divides in half and speed stays the same.

the only real purpose of sputnik 1 was to beat the us into space. we were getting close to launching a useful satellite, explorer 1 - which launched on january 31, 1958. the ussr had to beat that, so they launched sputnik 1 on october 4, 19