Chemical Warfare in Everyday Water

Your glass of water is actually a battlefield of chemical engineering. We literally have to bomb our supply

with chlorine just to kill the pathogens, then worry about the leftovers. It is wild because

we are constantly manipulating the planet, digging up ores to make steel and

fighting off endocrine disruptors that mess with our hormones. We track invisible nanoparticles and

stress over algae choking out the oxygen in our lakes. It is all just energy transfer and thermodynamics

at the end of the day. We are basically playing god with the periodic table

just to survive another Tuesday.