If Bob Dylan, the songster, needs a new title, he can use this one.
This message to you is not just about water, but about a major project that’s putting a call out for photographs concerning all aspects of the world-wide water crisis—photographs that show a truth as alarming that Al Gore’s revelations about Global Warming pale in comparison: to the fact that in every country in the world, within a generation or two (that means our grandchildren), people will no longer have easy access to clean water.
THE FAUCET TURNED OFF?
How did this mounting lack of ‘clean, available water’ come about so quickly? Just fifty years ago only five man-made chemicals were found in town or city reservoirs in this country.
Today, researchers have found 10,000, including birth control and anti-depressant chemicals in tap water. Water supplied through the aqueducts of ancient Rome was clearer and cleaner than the water supplies of many third world countries, and indeed the water supplies in some parts of our own country.
Liquid H2O isn’t inexhaustible. We are drinking and using the same water, recycled, that the dinosaurs were consuming. Except it was much purer in those days.
In our times, wars have been fought over oil. Water inevitably will be the next contested resource. Egypt is pumping the Nile dry, much to the distress of neighboring Ethiopia. Turkey may soon dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which will affect Syria and Iraq. In our own country controversial state water rights battles have already emerged in the courts.
Here in our own state of Wisconsin, where we have the largest supply in the world of clean, fresh water in Lake Superior, the corporate players and the politicians are beginning debates over tapping (draining) this resource.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
To bring the harrowing and rapidly deteriorating situation to the attention of people everywhere, a non-profit group, the BPR Foundation, is funding a project called The Blue Planet Run. The organization will publish a book on this global water crisis, to help spark urgently needed action to clean up and conserve water before it’s too late. The book project will be led by photographer Rick Smolan, creator of A Day In The Life series of coffee-table books (more than 75 published to date). Rick will be collecting photographs during the months of May and June.
You can be a part of this book.
If you’ve photographed areas where water supplies have been or are being maltreated, such as the polluting of a lake, dumping trash in a river, corporate waste poisoning the water table, Rick Smolan’s team would like to see your photos.
Also, if you are planning to go on assignment to a location where there’s disregard for protecting the planet’s water supply, the Blue Planet Run team would like to talk with you. You’ll learn how you can submit images on line to the project, and/or pitch a story idea for an assignment.
For information: http://www.photosource.com/blueplanet.html.
Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and best-selling author of “Sell & ReSell Your Photos” and “sellphotos.com,” has helped scores of photographers launch their careers. For access to great information on making money from pictures you like to take, and to receive this free report: “8 Steps to Becoming a Published Photographer,” visit http://www.sellphotos.com
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