Throughout history and across cultures, humans have associated water with life and prosperity. Today, this precious substance remains crucial for solving environmental problems, extracting natural resources, creating next-generation materials, as well as hunting for life on other planets. Join on us on a journey with water as we explore these topics and more. We also take a deep dive using a recently developed PNNL technique to learn how water molecules sit and behave at surfaces, which promises to break the dam on a variety of important research questions.