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"From roaring waterfalls and crashing waves to gentle rain and billowing clouds, water pervades our planet's majestic biosphere. It is easy to take for granted. But this ever-present substance is amazingly fit in a myriad of ways to sustain life on Earth, especially human life ... In [this book], Denton delves deep into this grand, untold story and explores how water is specially equipped to allow life to flourish on our blue planet"--Back cover.

We Love It. We Benefit From It. We Take It For Granted! It Is Everywhere. How Well Do We Know This Shapeless Thing That Sustains Our Lives? A Study.

Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs. This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways.

Answers such questions as "Where does water come from?" and "Why is the ocean salty?". Includes simple experiments.

Excerpt from Wonders of Water The contemplative mariner, as in mid-ocean he looked down its gentle bosom, continued to experience sentiments akin to those which fill the mind of the devout astronomer when in the stillness of the night he looks out upon the stars and wonders. - maury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.