WATER, AGUA, AQUA, AB ... MANY WORDS, LANGUAGES AND SYMBOLS DESCRIBE THIS LIFE-SUSTAINING SUBSTANCE UPON WHICH ALL HUMANITY DEPENDS. WATER COVERS 70 PERCENT OF OUR PLANET'S SURFACE-BUT MOST OF IT IS SALTY; AND LESS THAN 1 PERCENT IS FRESH. SOME IS MUDDIED BY TOXIC CHEMICALS AND SOME IS AS CLEAR AS A MOUNTAIN SOURCE CAN CREATE. SOME OF US LIVE IN MOIST RAINFORESTS WHERE CLOUDS DELIVER RAINDROPS DAILY AND FOR OTHER DESERT DENIZENS WATER MEANS A MILE HIKE. IN MANY DEVELOPED NATIONS THE TAP FLOWS IN ABUNDANCE BUT IN SOME LESS DEVELOPED NATIONS IT'S RUNNING DRY. ONE THING IS FOR SURE, WATER IS A RESOURCE NONE OF US CAN LIVE WITHOUT, YET OUR EXPERIENCES WITH IT ARE AS DIFFERENT AS THE LANGUAGES WE SPEAK AND THE LIFESTYLES WE LEAD. HERE BLUE TAKES A LOOK AT THE DIVERSE WORLDS OF WATER.
Including select excerpts from Blue Gold by Maude Barlow + Tony Clarke and Water Wars by Vandana Shiva.
Additional Text and Research: Aaron Clark, Shlomi Dinar + Hartmut Schwarzbach
