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How does water
get to your faucet?
If you live in the cityyour water comes from a reservoir.
The water in the reservoir is collectedfrom rivers and brooks, from rain and snow.
It is stored there and made pure and clean.
Pipes run under the street
eet
to carry itto you.
As long as the level in the reservoir remains high,
it can run right to your house without any help
back to the height where it started.
because water can climb
.
which was dug deep in the earthto reach the level of water much deeper than a reservoir.
If you live in the countryyour water may come from your own well or private storage place
A pump is needed
to push the water into pipes
to travel upward
into your house.
This book was designed by Alix Marson in the fall
of 2013 for Word & Image Studio II at Washington
University in St. Louis. It includes various weights
of the typeface DIN.