👀 Water you doing?
Water is the bearer of all things alive. The continuing and ever-evolving story of life is born from and borne by water – in our seas, rivers, lakes and ponds, and the water that courses through the veins of our urban infrastructures, carrying traces of our wins and losses, material and immaterial pursuits.
And yet, as a society, as claimants of civility and progress, we have failed miserably. Water is now a rapidly depleting resource. This depletion threatens our health, our peace, our security and the hopes of future generations. We are standing at the brink of collapse, of irreversible damage. The blue planet needs help, and our response is still laced with hesitation and trepidation.
But water still bears our stories as sincerely as it always did.
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The Museum of Water is a publicly donated collection of water and the stories it tells. From of a cup of afternoon tea to water from the sink of a young man’s first home in London, from a bit of swimming pool water to a few drops of water from a baby’s baptism, this collection, as someone described it, is a “mosaic of the universe”.
If I still had it, I would have donated my tiny jam jar filled with water from the Mediterranean Sea, which I filled in 2008 and kept in my cupboard for the next decade.
What would you donate?