Home Contact 01 Phase 01 Watch trailer About Awards & Honors Our team Photo gallery Events Get involved 02 Phase 02 Watch trailer About Digital Humanities Our team Photo gallery Get involved 03 Phase 03 Watch film About WU Exhibit Photo gallery Maps 04 Phase 04 Menu The Intimate Realities of Water Project is a series of cinematic portraits that examine the power dynamics of water and human settlements.
Learn more ↓ About the project This award-winning project is a listening forum, a platform for sharing, and an instrument for change, broadening public understanding of how water shapes everyday life. People living in disadvantaged communities across the world share how their lives have been impacted by water contamination, pollution, flooding, scarcity, and privatization.
Water statistics highlight the scope and magnitude of the global water challenge. What they don’t illustrate is how water scarcity, contamination, rising sea levels, and changes to the water cycle affect everyday life on the ground. They also don’t expose the politics of water access, the failed experiments in water management, nor the social and cultural hurdles that impede the success and equitable distribution of water development projects.