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400,000 Balls Cover Ivanhoe Reservoir by Gerd Ludwig

In 2007, the Department of Water Protection in Los Angeles detected high levels of bromate, a carcinogen that forms when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight, in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix.

The 102-year-old facility serves about 600,000 customers downtown and in South Los Angeles. When the Department of Water Protection realized the problem, they began construction of a new underground reservoir in Griffith Park, but while the new facility was being built they had to determine a way to keep the sunlight out of the water, so they used 400,000 plastic balls which resulted in this spectacular spectacle.

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The Water Cycle (Chris Turner, Jess Deacon, Helen Friel)

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Hutt Lagoon, Australia (Steve Back)

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boiling water without bubbles

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Superhydrophobic droplet logic: flip-flop memory (by hmertaniemi)

Great Lakes Currents Map (Feb, NOAA/GLERL)

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Score for the choreography of water flow in a fountain by Richard Halprin for Seminary South Park

I saw scores as a way of describing all such processes in all the arts, of marking process visible and thereby designing with process through scores. I saw scores also as a way of communicating these processes over time and space to other people in other places at other moments and as a vehicle to allow many people into the act of creation together, allowing for participation, feedback and communication

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Vladimir Lukyanov’s water computer, 1936, “the world’s first computer for solving [partial] differential equations.” 

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