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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
Flow: For the Love of Water. A film directed by Irena Salina, Oscilloscope Laboratories. 2008. [documentary]
Tara Lohan (editor). Water Consciousness. AlterNet Books, San Francisco, CA. 2008. [mixed essays]
William E. Marks. Water Voices from Around the World. Water Voices Inc., Edgartown, MA. 2007. [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]
Jay Lehr and Jack Keeley (editors). The Water Encyclopedia. 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
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," Landscape and Urban Planning 87 (2008): 10-21. [environmental technologies]
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]
Kay Damen, Andre Faaij, and Wim Turkenburg.  “Health, safety and environmental risks of underground CO2 storage-overview of mechanisms and current knowledge,” Climatic Change 74 (2006): 289-318. [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]
Robert Jackson, Esteban Jobbágy, Roni Avissar, Somnath Roy, Damian Barrett, Charles Cook, Kathleen Farley, David le Maitre, Bruce McCarl, and Brian Murray.  “Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration,” Science 310 (2005): 1944-1947. [environmental technologies]
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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