Watershed

An eco-installation of empty water bottles donated by Burners and evoloving/amassing as the week passes by.
Cell Leader: Cherry
Puddle discussion

wa·ter·shed (wô'tər-shěd', wŏt'ər-) Pronunciation Key
n. A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point: "a watershed in modern American history, a time that ... forever changed American social attitudes" (Robert Reinhold).

Background

• The piece will "evolve" through out the week — the 2009 Burning Man theme
  
• The piece will be created from waste materials readily available at Burning Man
  
• Water and water bottle consumption is a very timely issue for the environment. We can make a statement to participants.
  Furthermore Disorient can show our new water system (reservoir) which reduces/eliminates this waste.
  
• The playa itself is a dried up lake bed.
  
• The piece has a real community aspect to it and we can hopefully involve many members of camp and people outside of camp in the creation.
  
  

19 years ago when the BM festival first moved to BRC there weren't bottles of water like we consume so rapidly today.

We as a society have have been sold by Pepsi and Coca Cola that we need to pay for our water when we have the best quality drinking water in the world coming out of our taps! And the true costs of this water doesn't end with the price tag, or the consumed plastic, or the fuel consumed trucking this all around, it ALL adds up.

Here's an award-winning article on this subject: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html

We need to EVOLVE back to our roots away from mindless consumption, starting with water. And if every there's a place were I would expect radical, creative solutions to begin it's at Burning Man.

Solutions: (Reduce)
Fill up a water tank or cooler for your camp
Have your RV serviced with water (believe it or not, it's MORE efficient than carting around/wasting plastic bottles)
Use a reusable portable water container on the playa (no more personal plastic bottles)
And certainly if you must consume, recycle and reuse you waste..

Early Sketches

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