it's in the water

We are made of water. We come from it. We depend on it. Yet we barely understand it.

This book is not just about hydration, climate, or cleanliness. It’s about everything we’ve been taught to overlook. Water is not simply a resource, it is a living intelligence. It stores memory. It holds form. It reflects the world back to us and quietly shapes our biology, emotions, thinking, and systems.

The truth is, the world has been mistreating water, polluting it, bottling it, selling it, fearing it, and filtering it until it becomes something else entirely. And in doing so, we’ve lost touch with a deeper reality that has always been flowing beneath the surface. The further we separate ourselves from water in its true state, the more fractured we become, mentally, physically, ecologically.

What you’re about to read is not a conventional book about science or health. This is a story of awakening. You will uncover why water in plastic can harm you, why tap water is no longer what it once was. We’ll explore how rain cleans the air, how animals instinctively choose the safest streams, and how the most vital waters in the world are often the least understood.

But we’ll go further than facts. We’ll explore what water reveals about truth, memory, time, and alignment. Because to truly understand water is to understand life itself. And right now, life is trying to tell us something. Loudly.

You don’t need to be a scientist to feel the pull of this knowledge. You just need to be ready to see clearly, to question the systems we’ve inherited, and to listen, to your body, to the earth, and to water itself.

This is not a call to return to the past. It’s a call to reawaken what we already know.

What began as a question about health led somewhere much deeper. As I pulled on the threads, across systems, beliefs, and biology,I kept arriving at the same place. Water. Not just as something we drink or clean with, but as something fundamental. Alive. Misunderstood. And in crisis.

A year ago, I wrote The Stilling to describe what was happening to the oceans. A quiet collapse. Not sudden, not dramatic, but a slow fading of life, of oxygen, of rhythm. The seas were no longer roaring. They were falling still. And no one seemed to notice.

That was the moment I understood: we’re not just harming water. We’re failing to see it.

We treat water like a backdrop. But it is the stage, the actor, and the script. It is our memory and our medium. It moves through our cells, our weather, our food, and our time. And yet, even now, as the rivers clog and the rain becomes unpredictable, we barely look up.

Did you know, it is widely referred to that you are made of 60% water, but in truth, at a molecular level you are 99% water! This is far to an important commodity to not consider further.

That led me to a realisation, there are studies to say that time is gravity, and it makes sense but what if we considered that water is not essential to life, it is life.  It puts things into a whole new perspective.  Its a theory but there is a lot to suggest I might be right about this.

This book is a call to notice. To still ourselves long enough to feel what’s changing. To reawaken the relationship we once had, before filtration turned into fear, and nature into numbers. You’ll find facts here, but also provocations. Not to shock you, but to help you remember something you already know.

Water tells the truth. We just have to listen.

Thank you for reading.

Scott Pettifer

1. Water as Living Intelligence
Water is not inert. It is responsive, relational, and possibly conscious. It stores memory, reacts to intention, and serves as a mirror to the health of all systems, biological, planetary, and societal.

2. Misunderstanding Purity
We’ve been taught to fear water unless it’s filtered, bottled, or sterilised. This book exposes how these definitions of purity are shaped by industry, not nature, and asks what’s really clean, what’s truly alive, and what we’ve lost by sterilising everything.

3. Systemic Blindness
From plastic packaging to municipal treatment plants, water reveals how disconnected our systems are from reality. The book explores the silent collapse of ocean life, the manipulation of bottled water marketing, and the health consequences of our everyday choices.

4. The Hidden Cost of Convenience
Bottled water, chemical additives, and over-sanitisation are sold as progress, but often come at great cost. This theme explores the trade-offs we accept without question and the long-term impact on our bodies, ecosystems, and collective wellbeing.

5. Time, Rhythm, and Water
Water is not separate from time. It responds to the moon, the seasons, and our own internal states. This book links water to the deeper fabric of time, showing how our disconnection from living time mirrors our disconnection from water.

6. Memory and Truth
Water holds memory, not metaphorically, but physically. This idea challenges western scientific models and opens new questions about consciousness, storage, and the nature of truth itself.

8. Listening as Healing
Healing begins with attention. Many of the world’s considered healthiest people drink “unsafe” water by modern standards because their relationship with water is informed, local, and aligned. This theme invites readers to listen, not just to data, but to instinct, experience, and environment.