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TheBlueprintof Water

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Preorder the first printing.

The Blueprint of Water is finished and going to print: industrial water treatment, drawn as a living system, for the technicians and engineers who run it. The first printing is a limited run. Preorders ship the week of September 21, with reserved copies claimed first.

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Chapters
8
Models
130
Problems

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$45 a copy. Preorders ship the week of September 21.

The first edition hardcoverA linework drawing of the hardcover book, its cover carrying the droplet mark with a living waterline.
Fig. 00The object itself

Chapter 01 · Building Blocks

Begin with the system beneath every system.

Taken together, these fleeting attractions form the Hydrogen-Bond Network: a real, physical network that exists wherever liquid water exists.

The book starts at the molecular scale, then carries the same way of seeing into towers, boilers, closed loops, and softeners.

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The hydrogen-bond networkFour water molecules joined by temporary hydrogen bonds.OHHOHHOHHOHH
Fig. 01The network is the behavior

Choose the next object

One body of knowledge, three ways in.

Read the principle, model the system, or work the relationship.

The mission

Make the system visible, then make the work better.

The Blueprint of Water gives the industry a shared way to see, explain, and improve the systems that keep water working.

Why this exists