Without fresh water to drink, we’re dead in about three days. Yet for many of us, water is just another consumable product, available when we need it and damned — or dammed — when we don’t. The truth is that while many, from sailors and hydrologists to water treatment engineers and marine biologists, work with water, few revere water as our lifeblood, let alone ponder the origins, mysteries, and glories of its 332 million…
