Water is the most everyday of substances. It flows from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and could not live without it. However, on closer inspection, it is also called a very strange substance (it is one of the few molecules that expand when cooled). Look more closely, and water reveals itself as the key to a scientific story on one of the largest canvases. Water is critical to our survival - life depends on it - but it was also fundamental to the origins of life on Earth. The millions of gallons of water that make up our rivers, lakes, and oceans came from space. How it got here and how those water molecules were formed is a story that takes us back to the beginning of the universe. In fact, we know more about the depths of space than we do about the most distant regions of the oceans.

Water has also shaped the world we live in. Whether by gently carving the Grand Canyon over millennia or in how civilizations were built; we have settled in our cities along rivers and coasts. Scientific studies show how much calmer and more relaxed we feel when we are near water. We vacation by seas and lakes. However, one day wars may be fought over access to water.

The Book of Water will change the way you see water. After reading it, you will be able to hold a glass of water to the light and see in it a strange molecule that connects you with the origins of life, the birth (and death) of the universe, and with everyone who has ever lived.