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.