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Water: The environmental, technological and societal complexity of a simple substance
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2018
unpublished
For such a simple substance, water plays a remarkable variety of critical roles at scales ranging from molecular to global. Water is essential to life, constituting roughly 60% of our bodies, and is a dominant feature of our planet, covering over 70% of its surface. Because of the importance of water to society – for purposes ranging from consumption and sanitation to irrigation, navigation and energy production – water management has been a principal responsibility of civil society throughout
doi:10.31219/osf.io/7mvap
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