How does water
get to your faucet?
If you live in the city your water comes from a reservoir.
The water in the reservoir is collected from rivers and brooks, from rain and snow.
It is stored there and made pure and clean.
Pipes run under the stre
eet
to carry it to 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
If you live in the country your water may come from your own well or private storage place
which was dug deep in the earth to reach the level of water . much deeper than a reservoir.
A pump is needed
into your house.
to travel upward
to push the water into pipes
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.