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Аннотация:According to quantum electrodynamics (QED) liquid water is a two- phase system in which one of the phases is in a coherent state where all mole- cules are phase correlated, whereas the other is made up of uncorrelated mole- cules in a gas-like state. Recent data demonstrate that interfacial water adja- cent to hydrophilic surfaces exhibits peculiar anomalous properties, e.g., it is electrically charged and the sign of its charge is the same as the charge of the contiguous hydrophilic surface. It is known as “Exclusion Zone water” (EZ- water) because it excludes solutes. In this paper we show that these properties of interfacial water can be derived from the properties of coherent water. We analyze in the QED frame the dynamics of formation of EZ-water, the origin of its anomalous properties, and its relevance in living systems, where water is almost entirely interfacial being close almost everywhere to some macromolecu- lar backbone or to some surface. We conclude that all the above properties of EZ water are the consequence of the coherent collective oscillations occurring within liquid water and on its boundaries.