Water Talks podcast: Too Little
Water: too much, too dirty, too unequal and … too little. That’s what this podcast is about. During the UN Water conference, the first one in nearly 50 years, I spoke to a wide range of people in New York and the Netherlands – artists, activists, academics, engineers, policy makers – about how we can and should move forward in order to save ourselves and our planet from the water crisis.
Too little water directly affects our survival as a species. That’s why the Dutch artist René van Engelenburg (photo left) built the Water Arch, a carnival ride that shows, in the most fun way possible, just how much water we waste. But too little water, taking it for granted and turning it into a commodity, is how we got into this predicament in the first place. Just ask Native-American tribal leader Austin Nuñez (photo middle) from Arizona, or Palestinian water engineer Reeta Samamqa (photo right). For them too little water is their everyday reality. And with her ‘durational performances’ during an entire tidal cycle, American environmental performance artist Sarah Cameron Sunde reconnects us with water… literally!
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