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Other than air, the only substance more vital to life is water. Our bodies brim with it, and if were deprived of it for even a few days, the results can be fatal. Our planet, too, is mostly water, with oceans across approximately seventy percent of its surface. But potable water has in many times and places been a scarce resource, and with , Ian Miller traces the history of our relationship with drinking waterour attempts to find it, keep it clean, and make it widely available.