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In Deep Water

t is more valuable than gold. It is the elixir of life, the quencher of thirst and fire, hard to keep out and even harder to keep in, the original mirror yet clear as glass. It is sometimes silver or white as snow, and is snowflake delicate, the maker of rainbows and icebergs. It is the single most important and enthralling compound on earth. It is, of course, water. Ignorance of how to manage it in

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