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01/21/2024

Artist spotlight: Today we feature works from “Maya Lin: A Study of Water,” a 2022 solo exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. 🌊

“You can’t travel around, go to work, go to school without crossing a body of water or driving beside one,” said Truly Matthews, Assistant Director of Educator and Engagement at the Virginia MOCA. “We hope that this exhibition will allow visitors to think a little bit about how they interact with water in their daily lives. How much water do they use? What if they didn’t have clean water? What if they had too much water?”

This exhibition centers on a newly created site-responsive sculptural piece, Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay (2022), a breathtaking configuration of glass marbles that map these waterways onto the walls and floor of the gallery. This new piece anchors a selection of additional sculptural representations of water in various media, including riverways made of steel pins, icebergs made of plaster, water droplets made of glass, and waves made of spruce, pine, and fir.

Source: https://virginiamoca.org/exhibition/maya-lin-a-study-of-water/

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12/31/2023

As 2023 comes to a close, we at Water& are looking back on our most successful year to date. Here we share only a few of our successes, like attending the United Nations Water Conference in NYC and hosting our Young Leaders in Water event with our highest number of attendees yet. We have achieved so much this year and shared in the connectedness water brings us. We are so looking forward to 2024, stay tuned for what’s next! #2023

12/07/2023

Read more about the interconnectedness of water and the UNSDGs at the link in our bio. 💧🌊

12/01/2023

‘Duality’ by Miranda Morian.

Medium: Watercolor and acrylic gouache. 9 x 12 inches.

Thank you Miranda for wonderfully capturing the duality and contrasting realities of water access. On one side, the calm assurance of a reliable system; on the on the other, a fractured glass symbolizing the insecurity and lack of safety in accessing clean drinking water. A powerful visual echoing the disparities that persist in our world.

Miranda Morian is a senior in Visual Communication Design at Kent State University and an illustrator experienced in both digital and traditional mediums. Miranda’s main interest is in two-dimensional character design and illustration.

11/29/2023

Water & is thrilled to announce its partnership with the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion, the home ground for creativity, culture, and climate action at in Dubai 🌍

The E+C Pavilion is the first of its kind🌟 Its mission is to nurture and foster community building for the creative sector at COP28, working alongside policy experts, frontline activists, and government officials.

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11/15/2023

Ranked 13th amongst the most water-stressed nations in 2019, with just 4% of the world’s water reserves and 18% of the global population, India must prioritize water conservation, evaluation, and management.

This diagram illustrates the distribution of Water Bodies Across Rural and Urban Areas of India. (Source: National Water Body Census, 2023. Visualized by Krishna Kumar/WRI India)

A systematic, consistent, national-level dataset on water bodies to improve water management and increase resilience has long been awaited. The National Water Body Census 2023 is a crucial milestone in creating such a database. Undertaken by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the water census surveyed and disaggregated 2.4 million water bodies.

In this context, ‘urban water bodies’ refer to lakes, ponds, and canals within city limits, often influenced by urban development, while ‘rural water bodies’ encompass those in the countryside, reflecting the simplicity and natural beauty of rural landscapes. The insights from this census are pivotal for sustainable water resource management in India.🌊

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08/25/2023

Water Safety in Japan: Insights from the Tokyo Blue Earth Project is a summary of our partnership and the survey for World Water Day run by Motoko Akiyama and the Tokyo Blue Earth Project. Learn about the results here and you can learn more about water equity and water safety at the link in our bio!

08/22/2023

World Water Week 2023 is focused on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges. The theme Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World invites us to rethink how we manage water. Which ideas, innovations, and governance systems will we need in a more unstable and water scarce world? Visit https://www.worldwaterweek.org/ to learn more.

08/21/2023

Tulare Lake, a previously dormant lake in California has refilled for the first time in decades, after a series of intense storms and meltwater from record snowfall flooded areas of California this year.
The waters have submerged hundreds of acres of cotton, tomato and pistachio fields, as well as homes, roads and power infrastructure.
Tulare Lake is a massive freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States based upon surface area.

08/10/2023

Read our most recent research article titled “Five Water Data Platforms to Utilize” about the importance of understanding water resources at a more granular level. Visit waterand.org at the link in our bio to learn more. 💧📉📊

07/05/2023

Young people can and should play an important role in shaping how water is governed and managed. Your voices should be empowered, not underrepresented. Join us to learn more about your role in water equity.

Water&, North American Youth Parliament for Water, and the Reservoir Center for Water Solutions presents Young Leaders in Water: The Future of Water Equity. A virtual dialogue hosted on Zoom on Wednesday, July 26th at 6:30pm-8:00pm ET.

Even more exciting are our speakers Maura Jarvis & Dr Madeleine Hartley, two incredible women working on the future of water equity on the ground. We will look at how public trust impacts our relationship with water and how art/nontraditional communication methods can be used to strengthen our understanding of water equity related challenges.

Register here or on our website, link in bio: https://lnkd.in/euXHTDhp

We can't wait to see you there!

06/26/2023

The Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program [LIHWAP] is designed to offer temporary emergency aid to low-income families struggling with overdue water bills. LIHWAP was created as a temporary program during COVID-19. LIHWAP does not provide direct grants to individuals and does not charge a fee for receiving a benefit. Instead, elgible recipients give money directly to utilities to offset costs. The main priority of LIHWAP is to ensure that households whose services have been disconnected due to non-payment, or are about to be disconnected, can have their services restored as quickly as possible.
People should not have to choose between putting food on the table or running water, that is why this program is essential. Without further appropriations this money will run out and once again leave people choosing between basic needs and having access to clean running water. LIHWAP grants are accessible to entities such as US States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Territories, and recognized Indian Tribes and tribal organizations until funding runs out at the end of Fiscal Year 2023.
Source: Office of Community Services and NCDHHS

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