CONCEPT: A PRAYER FOR CLEAN WATER
Water
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” - “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Coleridge
Some Thoughts and Facts about Water
Human beings need water to survive. Each of us is constituted largely of the stuff. Our bodies at birth consist of nearly 80% water (although that percentage varies and diminishes over a lifetime). Water covers about 70% of the Earth’s surface. Yet only 2-3% of the Earth’s water is suitable for human consumption, and roughly two-thirds of that relatively small fraction of the planet’s water is contained in glaciers. The H20 molecule, as it is typically represented, functions as a formal foundation for the art in “A Prayer for Clean Water”: two like but separate elements bound by invisible forces to a third.
