These are listed here primarily for listeners to the audiobook. The many, varied verbs show the importance of water to us human beings - which is not surprising when you consider that our bodies are on average 60% water.

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Gentle

bathing, creeping, dribbling, dripping, drizzling, exuding, gurgling, hissing, lapping, leaking, meandering, melting, moistening, oozing, percolating, permeating, puddling, rippling, seeping, slopping, spilling, spitting, spreading, sprinkling, steeping, stirring, suffusing, tinkling, trickling, wandering or weeping.

Moderate

breaking, burbling, babbling, cascading, coursing, dousing, driving, ebbing, eddying, flowing, flushing, irrigating, pouring, raining, running, sizzling, slapping, slopping, sloshing, sparkling, spinning, spitting, splashing, sploshing, spraying, springing, squirting, steaming, streaming, swirling or washing.

Powerful

boiling, bursting, churning, crashing, deluging, drenching, drowning, drumming, engulfing, erupting, exploding, flooding, gushing, heaving, leaping, plunging, pounding, roaring, roiling, rolling, rushing, scalding, seething, shooting, soaking, spouting, spurting, surging, swamping, sweeping, swelling, tumbling, whirling and whipping