News anchor with a picture of Aguavilla over his shoulder with this caption...

“All is not well in Aguavilla. A city named for water and the river that carries it through the valley is suddenly experiencing a water shortage. The springs high up in the mountains that frame the area which have produced flows of water for millenia have mysteriously become dry. Now as they trickle a garden hose amount of water down the once great cascades, a crisis looms...”

A picture of wilting food crop, water wheels, and lastly a picture of a complex piping system...

“Food crops accustomed to consistent irrigation are quickly wilting; electricity is unavailable as the water wheels sit idle above the empty riverbed; 12,500 plumbers, which make up half of the population and 50% of its workforce are out of work...”

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The panic in Aguavilla, a city known for wasting water, is not well received in Center Secatoda. Living downstream from the water town had made life a struggle for the Secatodas. At a meeting of the elders of the village, most of the people seated in a circle have no sympathy for the Aguados. “They’ve done this to themselves! This is what happens when you have no respect for nature!” yells one old woman, joined by a cheer of others. The group hushes quickly as a very old man says quietly, “Let them learn their lesson. We’ll send Steam.”

Show a bearded guy with a white man’s afro working on a wooden canoe...A woman approaces him and hands him a message which reads...

Steam, the situation in Aguavilla must be remedied.

A technical picture of tree with solar panel leaves and a mirror lined water tank inside, several steam pipes form the roots heading to a turbine with this text box...

Steam, an inventor and the lone plumber of Secatoda had left Aguavilla with the intention of creating a solar steam turbine to power the hot and dry town. His tree like solar receivers had no water to boil into steam. The already low flow of the river had stopped completely.

Show Steam pondering with a caption as he thinks to himself, “The spiders.” Then a picture of a bioengineered plant with a round body and eight wirelike stems that join together in a cup of water...

Steam looks down at his robotic cat (cat is made of a sheet of flexible plastic material and some wires) with the caption, “Come on Flat Cat, we are heading to the mountain. But first, we have to go to the city to find the old man.”