Explorations

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="041a11c3.png"> <div> <B>"Men gradually lost the knowledge and experience of the spiritual nature of water, until at last they came to treat it merely as substance." </B></div> <div> <I><B>Theodor Schwenk </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A6CAF0" FACE="Papyrus" ><I> </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="18687f00.jpg" border=0 width="135" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Marlett" ><IMG SRC="22c221a0.jpg" border=0 width="34" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Trebuchet MS" >Water Sciences & Insights</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF80" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><B> </B></FONT>|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Water Sciences Insights"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Overview"><U>Overview</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><U>Books</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Articles"><U>Articles</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Broadcasts"><U>Broadcasts</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Insights"><U>Insights</U></A>   |   Explorations   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact "><U>Contact </U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.png" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Explorations</B><B> <A NAME="explorations"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> 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 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. The explorations are categorized as <A HREF="#general_interest_" TITLE="Explorations"><U>general interest</U></A> or <A HREF="#technicalscientific_" TITLE="Explorations"><U>technical/scientific</U></A>. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10721b90.jpg" border=0 width="289" height="185" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="1082db90.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="185" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT>Photos by Scott Portelli</div> <div> <U> <A NAME="general_interest_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></div> <div> <B>General Interest</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Tara Lohan (editor).  <I>Water Matters</I>.  AlterNet Books, San Francisco, CA.  2010.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[mixed essays]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Walton, Brett. "Bulk water exports: Alaska city wants to sell the world a drink," <I>Circle of Blue</I> (2 June 2010): 3 pp.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[commentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Amy Van Vechten.  “The flow of ideas,” <I>FLYP Discover</I> 23 (13-26 February 2009): 6 pp. <A NAME="pax_scientific"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[technology]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Flow: For the Love of Water</I>.  A film directed by Irena Salina, Oscilloscope Laboratories.  2008.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Tara Lohan (editor).  <I>Water Consciousness</I>.  AlterNet Books, San Francisco, CA.  2008.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[mixed essays]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> William E. Marks.  <I>Water Voices from Around the World</I>.  Water Voices Inc., Edgartown, MA.  2007.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[mixed essays]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Michael Kanellos.  "Energy on the high seas," <I>New York Times</I> (August 15, 2007).  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[alternative energy]</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> West Marrin.  "The waters of chaos," <I>Magister Botanicus</I> (August/September 2007): 47-53. <A NAME="botanicus"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/myth]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> David Helvarg & Jim Toomey.  <I>50 Ways to Save the Ocean</I>.  Inner Ocean, Maui, HI.  2006.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[commentary/activism]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Elizabeth Royte. "Drugging the waters," <I>Onearth</I> (Fall 2006): 26-31. <A NAME="drugs_commentary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environment]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Jay Lehr & Jack Keeley (editors). <I>The Water Encyclopedia</I>.  Wiley Interscience, New York, NY.  2005.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Andreas Schulz.  <I>Water Crystals: Making the Quality of Water Visible</I>.  Floris Books, Edinburgh, UK.  2005.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism/technology]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Matthew Lones. <A NAME="architecture"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><I>Water: embodiment of cultural, social and spiritual dimensions</I>.  M.A. thesis, University of Cincinnati, OH.  2004.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Whose Water?  Various authors present their views in the Winter 2004 issue of <I>YES! Magazine</I>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[mixed essays] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Bailagua Fronteriza (Dance of the Border Waters)</I>.  A film produced and directed by Michael Bedar.  2003.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Michael Stocker.  "Ocean bio-acoustics and noise pollution," <I>Soundscape</I> (Spring 2003): 16-29. <A NAME="_science"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> John Wilkes.  <I>Flowforms: The Rhythmic Power of Water</I>.  Floris Books, Edinburgh, UK.  2003.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism/technology]</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> Nathaniel Altman.  <I>Sacred Water: The Spiritual Source of Life</I>.  HiddenSpring, Mahwah, NJ.  2002.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[myth/history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Blue Planet: Seas of Life</I>.  BBC nature series produced by Alastair Fothergill (UK).  2001.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Writing on Water</I>.  Edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus.  The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.  2001.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[mixed essays]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> William E. Marks.  <I>The Holy Order of Water</I>.  Bell Pond Books, Great Barrington, MA.  2001.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[history/commentary] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Peter Warshall. “The unholy triumvirate,” <I>Whole Earth Magazine</I> (Winter 2001): 8 pp. <A NAME="_commentarytechnology_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[commentary/technology]</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> David Blake & Peter Jenniskens.  “The ice of life,” <I>Scientific American</I> (August 2001): 44-51. <A NAME="___science__"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science]  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Water: The Drop of Life</I>.  Public Television series produced by SWYNK (Netherlands).  2000.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Craig Childs.  <I>The Secret Knowledge of Water</I>.  Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA.  2000.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism/adventure]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Ellen Prager & Sylvia Earle.  <I>The Oceans</I><I>.</I>  McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. <A NAME="2000___natural_history"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>2000.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[natural history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Philip Ball. <I> </I><I>H</I><I>2</I><I>O: A Biography of Water</I>.  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK.  1999.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Sidney Perkowitz.  "The rarest element,"  <I>The Sciences</I><I> </I>39 (1999): 34-38.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Masaru Emoto.  <I>The Message from Water</I>.  HADO Kyoikusha, Tokyo, Japan.  1999.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[photography]   </FONT>  </div> <bR> <div> <I>Water: Sacred and Profaned</I>.  Produced by Baylands Productions.  1998.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> E.C. Pielou.  <I>Fresh Water</I>.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.  1998.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism/science]   </FONT></div> <bR> <div> William Ryan & Walter Pitman. <I> </I><I>Noah's Flood</I>.  Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.  1998.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/myth]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Barry Brailsford.  <I>Song of the Whale</I>.  StonePrint Press, Hamilton, New Zealand.  1997.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[myth/history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Robert Matthews.  "Wacky water," <I>New Scientist</I> (21 June 1997): 40-43.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Callum Coats. <I> </I><I>Living Energies</I>.  Gateway Books, Bath, UK.  1996.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism/technology]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Roger Payne.  <I>Among Whales</I>.  Scribner, New York, NY.  1995. <A NAME="___sciencehistory"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/history]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Peter Warshall.  "The morality of molecular water," <I>Whole Earth Review</I> (Spring 1995): 5-11.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/commentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Michel Schiff.  <I>The Memory of Water</I>.  Thorsons, London, UK.  1994.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[commentary]  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Water Cycle</I>.  An educational video produced by Nancy Brink and Rick Jaffe.  1993.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[documentary] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Paul Caro.  <I>Water</I>.  McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.  1993. <A NAME="____sciencecommentary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science/commentary]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Sandra Postel. <I>Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity</I>.  WorldWatch Institute, Washington, DC.  1992.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[history/politics]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Theodor Schwenk & Wolfram Schwenk.  <I>Water: The Element of Life</I>.  Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, NY.  1989.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> John Steele.  "The message from the oceans," <I>Oceanus</I> (Summer 1989): 4-9.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[science]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Patrick Flanagan & Gayle Flanagan.  <I>Elixir of the Ageless: Liquid Crystal Water</I>.  Vortex Press, Flagstaff, AZ. <A NAME="1986___technology"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>1986.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[technology]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Joseph Dillow.  <I>The Waters Above</I>.  Moody Press, Chicago, IL.  1981.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[myth/religion]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Theodor Schwenk.  <I>Sensitive Chaos</I>.  Rudolf Steiner Press, London, UK.  1965. <A NAME="_naturalism_____"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[naturalism] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#explorations" TITLE="Explorations"><U><I>return to top</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d50eaa0.jpg" border=0 width="270" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1d609aa0.jpg" border=0 width="265" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <U> <A NAME="technicalscientific_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></div> <div> <B>Technical/Scientific</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Adams, D.K., et al. <A NAME="water_taxis"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>"Surface generated mesoscale eddies transport deep-sea products from hydrothermal vents." <I>Science</I> 332 (2011): 580.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[global functions]</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. <A NAME="fracking"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>"Plan to study the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water sources." Office of Research and Development, Washington DC (February 2011): 126 pp.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Hong, K.S., et al. "Direct water splitting through vibrating piezoelectric microfibers in water," <I>Journal of Physical Chemical Letters</I> (2010): 10.1021.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[physical properties]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Sujay Kaushal, et al. <A NAME="_land_use_and_climate_variability_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>"Land use and climate variability amplify contaminant pulses," <I>EOS</I> 91[25] (2010): 221-223.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[global functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Thomas Elsaesser. "Ultrafast memory loss and relaxation processes in hydrogen-bonded systems," <I>Biological Chemistry</I> 390 (2009): 1125-1132.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[molecular network]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Kate Ravilious. <A NAME="___salt_solution__new_scientist__28_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>“Salt solution,” <I>New Scientist</I> (28 February 2009): 40-43.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Pollack, G.H. & J. Clegg. <A NAME="pollack_article"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Unexpected linkage between unstirred layers, exslusion zones, and water. In: <I>Phase Transition in Celll Biology</I>. Springer, New York , NY. 2008. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > [molecular network]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Philippa Wiggins.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#242424" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="wiggins_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>"Life depends upon two kinds of water," <I>PLoS ONE</I> 3(1): e1406. doi:10.1371 (2008).  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[biological functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Daniel Sonntag & Charles Cole.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="wetland_restoration_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>“Determining the feasibility and cost of an ecologically-based design for a mitigation wetland in central Pennsylvania, USA,” <I>Landscape and Urban Planning</I> 87 (2008): 10-21. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> Tobias Wheeler & Abraham Stroock.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="synthetic_tree_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>“The transpiration of water at negative pressures in a synthetic tree,”<I> Nature </I>455 (2008): 208-212.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[physical properties]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> D.H. Sonntag and C.A. Cole. "Determining the feasibility and cost of an ecologically-based design for a mitigation wetland in central Pennsylvania, USA," <I>Landscape and Urban Planning</I> 87 (2008): 10-21.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> G.A. Vecchi, A. Clement, & B.J. Soden. "Examining the tropical Pacific's response to global warming," <I>EOS</I> 89[9] (2008): 81-83.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[global functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Roy van Boekel.  "Water worlds in the making," <I>Nature</I> 447 (2007): 535-536.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[cosmic functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Jenny Lindblom & Bo Nordell.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="_underground_condensation_of_humid_air_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>"Underground condensation of humid air for drinking water production and subsurface irrigation."<I> Desalination</I> 203 (2007): 417-434.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Peter Agre.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="aquaporing_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>“The aquaporin water channels,” <I>Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society</I> 3: 5-13 (2006).  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[biological functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Kay Damen, Andre Faaij, & Wim Turkenburg.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="__health_safety_and_environmental_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>“Health, safety and environmental risks of underground CO2 storage-overview of mechanisms and current knowledge,” <I>Climatic Change</I> 74 (2006): 289-318.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[environmental technologies]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Ruggero Maria Santilli. “<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="a_new_gaseous_and_combustible_form_of_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>A new gaseous and combustible form of water,” <I>International Journal of Hydrogen Energy</I> 31 (2006): 1113 -1138.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[physical properties]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Martin Chaplin.  "Do we underestimate the importance of water in cell biology?" <I>Nature Reviews</I> 7 (2006): 861-866.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[biological functions]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Robert Matthews.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Tahoma" > <A NAME="_the_quantum_elixir_new_scientist_1_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>"The quantum elixir," <I>New Scientist</I> (8 April 2006): 32-37.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66FFFF" FACE="Tahoma" >[molecular network] </FONT></div> <bR> <div> J.R. Smyth & S.D. 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