The book is a "travel writing and memoir threaded through with musings on the origins of words" which Annette Kobak says "manages to unlock a sense of the awe and poetry our most ancient ancestors must have felt in naming things for the first time".
Morrow covers many of her interests including theosophy, the Finger Lakes region, the start of Mormonism, and the lasting relationships humans have cultivated with the natural environment, and bee-keeping.
Water is the first publication of the Sowell Collection Books series from Texas Tech University, a literary archive housing the papers of prominent twentieth and twenty-first century American writers whose work explores questions of land use and the environment; the nature of human and non-human communities; the intersection of scientific and spiritual values; and the fragility and resilience of the Earth.
[8] Morrow also has affiliations with the Lapham’s Quarterly Editorial Board Trustee and wrote an essay published on the website called The Turning Sky which detailed her accounts of translating various Egyptian texts.
Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Nation, The Seneca Review, Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image (Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions), Best American Poetry, and Lapham’s Quarterly.