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Music From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Water has agency, who wants to go where it wants to go.

Humans, particularly in recent centuries, have come crosswise with the desires of water,

and through the application of almost unimaginable amounts of concrete, pumps the size of houses and enormous canals,

we've almost, most of the time, been able to make the water go where we want and not where we don't.

But journalists, Erica Guys, argues in her new book, Water Always Wins,

that the era of mega-engineered infrastructure is coming to an end.

Our water system here in the state and around the world is not going to hold out for much longer,

and what comes after will require us to live and work with water's desires,

not against them. That conversation's coming up next after this news.

I'm Alexis Madrigal. Welcome to Forum. In her new book, Water Always Wins, Erica Geis begins here in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she grew up,

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