Reading time: 6 segments. 

Protection extends in a 1" diameter sphere centered on the reader. 

All forms of water - liquid, solid, and vapor, ice, hail, snow, sleet, steam, and so forth — are unable to penetrate the sphere of protection. 

If those being protected come upon a form of water, the substance simply will not touch them; thus, they will not slip on ice, sink into a body of water, etc. 

Protection lasts for 5-8 turns (d4 + 4).