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The Modern Living Peace Train™. How everything connects. FOLLOW, THE ORANGE. A train travels through a living landscape at sunrise.
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The Modern LivingPeace Train™

REAL CONNECTIONS.
A HEALTHIER TOMORROW.

SEE HOW EVERYTHING CONNECTS.

Investigating how our choices shape people, places
and the living systems we all depend on.

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THE SEVEN RAILS · 01 / 07

Water.

Follow the water we use and the living world it moves through.

WHY IT MATTERS

Rain, rivers and drinking water connect a landscape to daily life. What enters water can travel beyond its first place.

OCTOBER RESEARCH · CONNECTED DISCOVERIES

Where does it go next? ↗

Water chemistry. Living soil. The circumstances around a meal. Ten new investigations follow the connections—and the evidence that still needs to be found.

FOLLOW, THE ORANGE! · SEVEN RAILS. ENDLESS DESTINATIONS.

ONE INVESTIGATION · SEVEN RAILS · PASSENGER

The field does not end at the fence.

Follow the rain from useful nutrients to rivers, drinking water and the Gulf. Begin with the public opening.

Conceptual surface and subsurface water routes from a field
Original TMLPT system orientation: surface and subsurface routes are different. No measured concentration or local water-safety result. Source ↗
WHAT CHANGED BEFORE WE DID? · PASSENGER INVESTIGATION

The water has a history.

Can drinking-water nitrate help explain a cancer trend? Begin with the public evidence.

Tile drainage installation in a North Dakota wetland catchment
North Dakota · tile-drain installation. Charles Dahl / USGS, public domain. This photograph documents infrastructure, not a cancer study or a nitrate measurement. Source ↗
CURRENT READING · THIS RAIL
The Fertilizer Has a Past

How can a useful cycle of recovered nutrients also carry persistent contamination, and who needs to know before the material reaches a farm?

PRIMARY RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
The Water Leaves. The Salt Stays.

How can water that helps grow a crop gradually make the land harder to farm—and what would it take to keep both the field and the watershed productive?

PRIMARY RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
The Disappearing Wheat Field: What Is Taking Its Place?

Is there enough water for the season? Follow that question into the choice to plant wheat.

CONNECTED RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
What changed before we did?

Investigate exposure pathways while keeping their role in the age trend unresolved.

CONNECTED RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
Intelligence Is Not Wisdom.

Forecasts and computation meet water systems and local decisions.

CONNECTED RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
What are we growing all this corn for?

What leaves the field can become a downstream question.

CONNECTED RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
When the soil changes the fertilizer

Salt can change a crop’s access to water. Follow irrigation, drainage and the nitrogen that may leave the field.

CONNECTED RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
The river doesn't move at an average

What happens when pollution arrives in pulses?

PRIMARY RAIL · PUBLIC OPENING
ENTER THE WORLD

Begin here.

Swim with the Fish
PUBLIC DISCOVERIES
When rain moves plasticAfter biosolids reach the fieldWhat is in the water we drink?
GO DEEPER · PASSENGER

Follow the evidence.

Begin in public. The research continuations remain available with Passenger passage.

One watershed, different questionsWhen rain moves plasticWhat is in the water we drink?

THE ENERGY ANATOMY ATLAS · PASSENGER DEPTH

Follow water into a wider map.

Start with the WATER Rail’s evidence and reporting. Alongside it, the Energy Anatomy atlas offers a separate way to explore the chart’s nature, body and food relationships.

  • Water & environments
  • Body systems
  • Food
  • Framework connections

Chart connections are traditional or symbolic unless a separate source establishes a scientific claim. They do not establish treatment effects.

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