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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak is a nonfiction work of environmental history and urban infrastructure analysis. Written by a leading civil and environmental engineer, the book explains how cities have obtained, cleaned, distributed, and disposed of water across successive eras of technological change. Sedlak’s purpose is not only to describe the past, but to show why modern water systems are under strain from population growth, pollution, climate stress, aging infrastructure, and rising expectations for reliability. The book frames water supply as a foundational system of civilization and argues that future progress will depend on rethinking centralized networks, expanding water reuse, and treating wastewater, desalination, and decentralized treatment as parts of a more resilient urban strategy. It is both a historical survey and a forward-looking policy and engineering argument.