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Water is a topic that is addressed by a wide range of scientific disciplines and by an even broader array of nonscientific endeavors. This web page is updated periodically to include a sampling of the myriad explorations (in the form of books, articles, and documentaries) into water and water-related phenomena that add to humanity's evolving knowledge of and experience with this unique substance. The explorations are categorized as general interest or technical/scientific.
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General Interest
William E. Marks. Water Voices from Around the World. Water Voices Inc., Edgartown, MA. 2008. [mixed essays]
Michael Kanellos. "Energy on the high seas," New York Times (August 15, 2007). [alternative energy]
West Marrin. "The waters of chaos," Magister Botanicus (August/September 2007): 47-53. [science/myth]
David Helvarg and Jim Toomey. 50 Ways to Save the Ocean. Inner Ocean, Maui, HI. 2006. [commentary/activism]
Elizabeth Royte. "Drugging the waters," Onearth (Fall 2006): 26-31. [environment]
The Water Encyclopedia. Edited by Jay Lehr and Jack Keeley. Wiley Interscience, New York, NY. 2005. [science/history]
Andreas Schulz. Water Crystals: Making the Quality of Water Visible. Floris Books, Edinburgh, UK. 2005. [naturalism/technology]
Whose Water? Various authors present their views in the Winter 2004 issue of YES! Magazine. [mixed essays]
Bailagua Fronteriza (Dance of the Border Waters). A film produced and directed by Michael Bedar. 2003. [documentary]
Michael Stocker. "Ocean bio-acoustics and noise pollution," Soundscape (Spring 2003): 16-29. [science]
John Wilkes. Flowforms: The Rhythmic Power of Water. Floris Books, Edinburgh, UK. 2003. [naturalism/technology]
Nathaniel Altman. Sacred Water: The Spiritual Source of Life. HiddenSpring, Mahwah, NJ. 2002. [myth/history]
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life. BBC nature series produced by Alastair Fothergill (UK). 2001. [documentary]
Writing on Water. Edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2001. [mixed essays]
William E. Marks. The Holy Order of Water. Bell Pond Books, Great Barrington, MA. 2001. [history/commentary]
Peter Warshall. “The unholy triumvirate,” Whole Earth Magazine (Winter 2001): 8 pp. [commentary/technology]
David Blake and Peter Jenniskens. “The ice of life,” Scientific American (August 2001): 44-51. [science]
Water: The Drop of Life. Public Television series produced by SWYNK (Netherlands). 2000. [documentary]
Craig Childs. The Secret Knowledge of Water. Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. 2000. [naturalism/adventure]
Ellen Prager and Sylvia Earle. The Oceans. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.  2000. [natural history]
Philip Ball. H2O: A Biography of Water. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK. 1999. [science/history]
Sidney Perkowitz. "The rarest element," The Sciences 39 (1999): 34-38. [science]
Masaru Emoto. The Message from Water. HADO Kyoikusha, Tokyo, Japan. 1999. [photography]
Water: Sacred and Profaned. Produced by Baylands Productions. 1998. [documentary]
E.C. Pielou. Fresh Water. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 1998. [naturalism/science]
William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Noah's Flood. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. 1998. [science/myth]
Barry Brailsford. Song of the Whale. StonePrint Press, Hamilton, New Zealand. 1997. [myth/history]
Robert Matthews. "Wacky water," New Scientist (21 June 1997): 40-43. [science]
Callum Coats. Living Energies. Gateway Books, Bath, UK. 1996. [naturalism/technology]
Roger Payne. Among Whales. Scribner, New York, NY. 1995. [science/history]
Peter Warshall. "The morality of molecular water," Whole Earth Review (Spring 1995): 5-11. [science/commentary]
Michel Schiff. The Memory of Water. Thorsons, London, UK. 1994. [commentary]
The Water Cycle. An educational video produced by Nancy Brink and Rick Jaffe. 1993. [documentary]
Paul Caro. Water. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. 1993. [science/commentary]
Sandra Postel. Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity. WorldWatch Institute, Washington, DC. 1992. [history/politics]
Theodor Schwenk and Wolfram Schwenk. Water: The Element of Life. Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, NY. 1989. [naturalism]
John Steele. "The message from the oceans," Oceanus (Summer 1989): 4-9. [science]
Patrick Flanagan and Gayle Flanagan. Elixir of the Ageless: Liquid Crystal Water. Vortex Press, Flagstaff, AZ.  1986. [technology]
Joseph Dillow. The Waters Above. Moody Press, Chicago, IL. 1981. [myth/religion]
Theodor Schwenk. Sensitive Chaos. Rudolf Steiner Press, London, UK. 1965. [naturalism]
Technical/Scientific
G.A. Vecchi, A. Clement, and B.J. Soden. "Examining the tropical Pacific's response to global warming," EOS 89[9] (2008): 81-83. [global functions]
Roy van Boekel. "Water worlds in the making," Nature 447 (2007): 535-536. [cosmic functions]
Jenny Lindblom and Bo Nordell.  "Underground condensation of humid air for drinking water production and subsurface irrigation." Desalination 203 (2007): 417-434. [environmental technologies]
Ruggero Maria Santilli. “  A new gaseous and combustible form of water,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 31 (2006): 1113 -1138. [physical properties]
Martin Chaplin. "Do we underestimate the importance of water in cell biology?" Nature Reviews 7 (2006): 861-866. [biological functions]
Robert Matthews.  "The quantum elixir," New Scientist (8 April 2006): 32-37. [molecular network]
J.R. Smyth and S.D. Jacobson.  "Nominally anhydrous minerals and Earth's deep water cycle," In: Earth's Deep Water Cycle, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. 2006. [physical properties/global functions]
Thomas Stocker and Christoph Raible  ."Water cycle shifts gear," Nature 434 (2005): 830-833. [global functions]
Sharon Kedar and Frank Webb. "The ocean's seismic hum." Science 307 (2005): 682-683. [global functions]
Junkee Rhie and Barbara Romanowicz.  "Excitation of Earth's continuous free oscillations by atmosphere-ocean-seafloor coupling." Nature 431 (2004): 552-556. [global functions]
Yan Zubavicus and Michael Grunze. "New insights into the structure of water with ultrafast probes," Science 304 (2004): 974-976. [molecular network]
Dominik Marx. "Throwing tetrahedral dice," Science 303 (2004): 634-636. [molecular network]
Philip Ball. "How to keep dry in water," Nature 423 (2003): 25-26. [biological functions/physical properties]
P.D. Asimow and C.H. Langmuir.  "The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes," Nature 421 (2003): 815-820. [global functions]
Nancy Levinger. "Water in confinement," Science 298 (2002): 1722-1723. [physical properties]
J.R. Errington and P.G. Debenedetti. "Relationship between structural order and the anomalies of liquid water," Nature 409 (2001): 318-321. [physical properties]
Steen Rasmussen, et al. "Ansatz for dynamical hierarchies," Artificial Life 7 (2001): 329-353. [molecular network]
Walter Drost-Hansen. "Temperature effects on cell functioning----a critical role for vicinal water," Cellular & Molecular Biology 47 (2001): 865-883. [biological functions]
Dan Bergman. "Topological properties of the hydrogen-bond network in liquid water," Chemical Physics 253 (2000): 267-282. [molecular network]
Martin Chaplin.  "A proposal for the structuring of water," Biophysical Chemistry 83 (2000): 211-221. [molecular network]
M. Colic and D. Morse. “The elusive mechanism of the magnetic 'memory' of water,” Colloids and Surfaces 154, sect. A (1999): 167-174. [physical properties]
Sander Woutersen and Huib Bakker. “Resonant intermolecular transfer of vibrational energy in liquid water,” Nature 402 (1999): 507-509. [molecular network]
H.G. Nagendra, N. Sukumar, and M. Vijayan. "Role of water in plasticity, stability, and action of proteins: crystal structures of lysozyme at low levels of hydration," Proteins 32 (1998): 229-240. [biological functions]
D.E. Jennings and P.V. Sada. "Water in Betelgeuse and Antares," Science 279 (1998): 844-847. [cosmic functions]
R.G. Curry, M.S. McCartney, and T.M Joyce.  "Oceanic transport of subpolar climate signals to mid-depth subtropical waters," Nature 391 (1998): 575-577. [global functions]
Martin Harwit, et al.  “Thermal water vapor emission from shocked regions in Orion,” Astrophysical Journal Letters 497 (1998): 105-108. [cosmic functions]
Takeshi Oka.  “Water on the Sun: molecules everywhere,” Science 277 (1997): 328-329. [cosmic functions]
Brian Tinsley. "Do effects of global atmospheric electricity on clouds cause climate changes?" Eos 78 (1997): 341-349. [global functions]
C.J. Morton and J.E. Ladbury. “Water mediated protein-DNA interactions: the relationship of thermodynamics to structural detail,” Protein Science 5 (1996): 2115-2118. [biological functions]
G. Wilse Robinson, et al. Water in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. World Scientific, Singapore. 1996. [review of current theories]
A. Luzar and D. Chandler. "Hydrogen-bond kinetics in liquid water," Nature 379 (1996): 55-57. [molecular network]
D.D. Sentman and E.M. Wescott.  "Red sprites and blue jets: high-altitude optical emissions linked to lightning," Eos 77 (1996): 1-4. [global/cosmic functions]
Peter Webster.  “The role of hydrological process in ocean-atmosphere interactions,” Reviews of Geophysics 32 (November 1994): 427-476. [global functions]
Water and Biological Macromolecules. Edited by Eric Westhof. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 1993. [biological functions]
Wallace Broecker. “The great ocean conveyor,” Oceanography 4 (1991): 79-89. [global functions]
R.L. Blumberg, et al. “Connectivity of hydrogen bonds in liquid water,” Journal of Chemical Physics 80 (1984): 5230-5241. [molecular network]
Frank Stillinger. "Water revisited," Science 209 (1980): 451-457. [physical properties/molecular network]
Cell-Associated Water. Edited by Walter Drost-Hansen and James Clegg. Academic Press, New York, NY. 1979. [biological functions]
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. The Living State. Academic Press, New York, NY. 1972. [biological functions]
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