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as spotted on the flavorwire website (deposited directly to my inbox via their daily dose update – flavorpill) water: our thirsty world… a special issue of national geographic and related exhibition at LA’s annenberg space for photography… builds an extensive portfolio of the past and future of water on earth and the ever increasing problem of access to fresh water in a shifting climate… view the issue, find out what you can do to help and browse images and videos from the exhibition on the national geographic’s website here and think about this:
“civilization has been slow to give up on our myth of the earth’s infinite generosity… declining to look for evidence to the contrary, we just knew it [water] was there… we pumped aquifers and diverted rivers, trusting the twin lucky stars of unrestrained human expansion and endless supply…. now water tables plummet in countries harboring half the world’s population…. rather grandly, we have overdrawn our accounts…” (barbara kingsolver, april 2010)…
photograph by camille seaman (freelance 2006) … severed from the edge of antarctica, this iceberg might float for years as it melts and releases its store of fresh water into the sea… the water molecules will eventually evaporate, condense, and recycle back to earth as precipitation…
photograph by lynn johnson (for national geographic magazine 2009) … in shekana, ethiopia, halike berisha must fill her jug from a contaminated reservoir… access to clean water is not solely a rural problem, but the challenges of delivering it are most daunting in remote places...
photograph by barry yanowitz (freelance 2008) … a 90-foot-tall cascade spills beneath the brooklyn bridge in nyc… in 2008 artist olafur eliasson installed the public-art piece, one of his four “new york city waterfalls,” to celebrate “the physicality of water”…
most words taken from the exhibition here… x
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