We know all life depends on water. But it’s the quality of that water that determines what can live/thrive on any particular mixture of H2O molecules and varying bits of other planetary elements, including some compounds humans invent.

In California’s rivers, anadramous fish species spawn in the fresh waters of their birthplace and later swim to the ocean to mature in the highly saline waters of the Pacific Ocean. Today, these same species struggle for their very existence amid our super-engineered water capture and diversion systems.

Water for commerce has varying quality requirements. Farmers can use almost anything wet, upstream of the tidal influence in the Delta.

Silicon Valley innovators finally realized reverse osmosis filters could turn tap water into the best solvent salt-free water. Pure water replaced the use of deadly organic solvents, used well into the 1980′s, which resulted in unbearable grief and cost untold dollars.

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